Show threadtools for commensality 🧿Nov 20

4/ "the container is in some sense both an epoch-making design object, & an imaginative opening. It begs us to look beyond or within the banality of the box, & outward into the myriad ways that circulatory systems become wounds on our lives & architectural landscapes"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/06-object-politics/container-stacking-packing-moving-world-charmaine-chua

#shipping #logistics #CriticalLogistics

The Container: Stacking, Packing, and Moving the World

If, on any given day, you left the feverish grids of downtown Los Angeles and took a drive down the litter-strewn Interstate-110 towards the Port of Long Beach, you might find yourself crossing the…

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ScienceOpenJul 4, 2025

'The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia' - a new article published in Pluto Journals 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation' on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0007

#LabourStudies #Logistics #CriticalLogistics #Warehousing

The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d22092e99">The concept of the ‘logistical episteme’ – the systemic organisation of practices, technologies and discourses geared toward the optimisation of efficiencies and value extraction – is crucial for understanding how contemporary capitalism reconfigures labour and geopolitics around computational power. This article explores the emergence of the logistical episteme by tracing the historical development of location theory and its integration with contemporary supply chain management. It highlights how algorithmic models and software shape the production of space and circulation of capital, with a focus on the case of warehousing industries in Malaysia. This approach allows an analysis of how the logistical episteme functions as a political technology, governing labour forces and mobilities, and corroding traditional notions of place. </p>

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Show threadChristina D-HMar 15, 2025

"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/24661

Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

Here's the book:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond | Guyton | International Journal of Communication

Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond

Christina D-HJul 24, 2024

🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon

This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA

Matthew HockenberryMar 29, 2023

CFP: Supply Studies Research Network (EXTENDED DEADLINE APRIL 1ST)

1) We're looking for people working on #criticallogistics & #supplychain (esp w digital tools) &
2) we're providing small stipends for work that can leverage https://manifest.supplystudies.com to do it.

https://bit.ly/supplystudies

Manifest: Supply Chain Platform

Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade networks.

Jess BierMar 21, 2023

I'm hiring 2 PhDs and a Postdoc in Rotterdam as part of an ERC-funded ethnographic project on racial capitalism and critical logistics! Deadline 4 June to start 1 Sept.

More details, and please note I'll be away in April/May:

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325284/two-phd-positions-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-2-x-1fte/

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325285/postdoctoral-researcher-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-10fte/

#racialcapitalism #criticallogistics #sts #academia #Phd #postdoc #ethnhography #research #erc

Two Ph.D. Positions as part of an ERC-funded project in critical logistics and racial capitalism (2 x 1fte)

The Department of Public Administration and Sociology is currently recruiting for two Ph.D. positions as part of an ERC-funded DIGIPORTS project Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping, led by...

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jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Feb 2, 2023

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

Amazon's Trickle-Down Monopoly

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers.

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jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Feb 2, 2023

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

Miriam PosnerJan 10, 2023
Logistics nerds *must* check out Manifest, Matthew Hockenberry and Colette Perold's platform for mapping and analyzing supply chains. It's amazing, and I especially love how it begins by mapping its *own* supply chain. https://manifest.supplystudies.com/ #criticallogistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #logistics #scm
Manifest: Supply Chain Platform

Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade networks.

Matthew HockenberryJan 10, 2023

Very happy to share that Colette Perold and I have been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to build a research network and curriculum for #humanities work in #criticallogistics and supply chain studies Manifest (https://manifest.supplystudies.com)!!

We will be sharing a call in the coming months for projects / researchers interested in supply chain mapping / storytelling / visualization across disciplines like #mediastudies #communication #history #culturalstudies #sts & more!

Manifest: Supply Chain Platform

Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade networks.