"Conclusion"

This conclusion chapter centers on the final weeks of the cartonera project, with ethnography drawn from the London Cartonera Book Festival and the launch of a cartonera special collection at the Senate House Library, University of London. We discuss how unruly cartonera books issue a challenge to the librarians tasked with their cataloguing, and we consider the notion of precarity with regard to the particular labor relations in which we found ourselves embedded. Reflecting on the longevity of the project, we connect moments from London to São Paulo and Cuernavaca to make the case for a creative political ontology: a cartonera design for the pluriverse that is joyfully collective and yet irreverently autonomous.