The spill of 18 thousand liters of 2,4-D herbicide in the Argentine town of San
José de la Esquina shows how the accident, starring the overturning of the truck
carrying the herbicide, is part of a normalized state of exception that transcends
this event. While, in its original sense, the idea of a state of exception turned
into a norm refers to the normalization, within the rule of law, of the suspension
of the legal order (Agamben, 2004), here exceptionality becomes part of a
normalized productive logic. Apparently isolated incidents that are a constitutive
part of the material webs organized around hegemonic agricultural production