Easterling’s “Tomato World” isolates a spatial and political condition in which a globally mobile programme acquires coherence independently of place. The “world” is neither a nation nor a simple network, but a travelling cultural and logistical repertoire able to reproduce itself across territories through shared economic imperatives, technical standards and claims to expertise. The Almería greenhouse landscape becomes exemplary because its apparent rationality conceals a hyperbolic environment in which production, labour, waste, climate and trade are compressed into one intensively controlled domain. Easterling’s contribution lies in treating such a world as an operative fiction: globally distributed, internally coherent and partly insulated from political checks. Her method moves from visible landscape to hidden logistical order, revealing how spatial form can materialise economic belief. The essay provides a precise bridge between architectural theory, infrastructure studies and political geography by showing that globalisation is built not only through flows but through repeatable worlds whose separation from surrounding culture becomes a source of power.
