Lecture presented at the IV International Congress of the Societat Catalana de Comunicació (Spain). Applies Benedict Anderson's imagined communities framework to freight graffiti.
The study demonstrates how writers from Mexico, the US, and Canada, without physical contact, form a network of recognition and shared identity. Railway cars act as physical agents transporting signatures from yard to yard, country to country, structuring a transnational circuit of symbolic circulation invisible to the general public.