In this way, an understanding of the current juncture as a “catastrophe” or a turning point may resignify the “emptying island” as an opportunity to enact an end to colonial-capitalist modernity through different forms of governance, non-growth approaches to resource production, and new forms of habitation. Rather than emphasize the imperial ways of valorizing islands as sites of economic, cultural or political extraction, the Puerto Rican archipelago (like the Caribbean and other zones more broadly) can be valued as “self-sufficient and autonomous spaces where rich social and collective experiences occur” (Martínez-San Miguel 2018).[8] While capital becomes increasingly ghostly, bodies, links, and memories remain active and present. In this nexus, different forms of acting on what is valued can be imagined, practiced, and shared.