The contemporary global world is pervasively and ceaselessly criss-crossed by flows of commodities, people, capitals, and information, the control of which is today at the core of many conflicts between economic and political agents of different orders of magnitude. The awareness of the spatial interdependency that the current state of the global market entails has generally risen during the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequently due to the implications of the war in Ukraine and Gaza, because of the interruptions and delays of such flows they implied. However, the search for solutions to the pandemic, and especially the “vaccine race”, has also shown something else, that is, the degree to which the combination of pre-existing global inequalities1 and of the privatisation and commodification of knowledge2 has constituted even further borders between different areas of the world3.