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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Niccolò Cuppini; Mattia Frapporti This conversation on logistics seeks to explore the persistence of origins in contemporary logistical capitalism. We discuss the ongoing importance of the founding of modern logistics in the Atlantic slave trade. We suggest that contemporary logistical capitalism...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 95–102.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Niccolò Cuppini In recent years, a new critical scholarship and movement organi-zation that is adopting the lens of logistics has emerged, marked by a profound interdisciplinarity. Powerful voices from a wide spectrum of radical theoretical and political commitments are delineating critical...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay explores the road and the chain as material and ideological forms of logistical and infrastructural power. Focusing on threechain gang narratives, John L. Spivak's Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang (1932), Elliot Burns's I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain (1932...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the perspective of the black, and the fantasy of survival even in living death. And just as the zombie is so doubled and divided, so too is the figure of shipping, as Fred Moten and Stefano Harney remind us in “Logisticality, or the Shipped”: From the motley crew who followed in the red wakes of these slave...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 155–160.
Published: 01 March 2018
... by the following passage, an extract from a paper titled “Intelligent Distribution and Logistics,” written by two experts in supply chain management — the neoliberal science par excellence. It offers us a vision of the biopolitical capture of the global South as servant to the Western consumer imperium...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Lefebvre, De l’Etat , 290. See also Toscano, “Lineaments of the Logistical State.” References Anders Günther . ( 1956 ) 2009 . Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution . Munich : Beck . Baltz Lewis . 1975 . “ Review...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
... commerce, by then the early trade had established the basic practices and logistics of a “trade in the living,” in the process incorporating dynamic West African societies into an emerging world economy. 1 The documentation of the early Portuguese slave trade, particularly the first great expansion...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... This is why one philosopher says that we don’t have moods, but rather, they have us. 1 But who or what has them? Paranoia has you; it uses you. Paranoia is the affect par excellence of instrumentalism, of the rationalizing sciences of logistics, infrastructure, and supply chain management. What...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as to territories of extraction: the mines. These are the sites where undersea cables land. They are also, traditionally, places where shipping containers accumulate (though the infrastructure for physical logistics has shifted — prosthetically controlled by data, they seek cheaper real estate, larger swaths...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2012
...,” the slippage between past time and the promise of future realization, I am tantalized by the visualization of the otherwise invisible inner spaces of global logistics that allows subjective or embodied labor to emerge repeatedly within the visual frame of migrating labor in its objective form...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 65–71.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Duterte could not exist without this language system in place, and without the network of power alliances in the global security complex in which the nation-state he oversees serves as logistical provider and support. One way to pursue this historical trace is through the rhetoric of the war on drugs...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., wherein water stands as the symbol and vehicle for inequality, vulnerability, racism, labor, land-based relationality, and capitalist infrastructure. Infrastructure is often thought to be governed by the ghoulish science of logistics, a cornerstone of the MBA curriculum, but it is also a mode of natural...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of being replaced completely by the allegedly new paradigm, the old discourse of enemies now coexists with a network perspective. Despite a gradual logistical shift to decentralized electronic warfare, the U.S. military still fits anti-­American networks into the conceptual “enemy...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... capitalist modernity. For More, reading the slave ship as infrastructure demands an engagement not only with logistics and circulation but also with production, specifically the production of social difference or racialization. By packing human captives into the holds of merchant caravels designed...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 61–63.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Physical pain. Disability as everyday logistics. Mass incarceration as disenfranchisement. The things white people do. The sunken place. The kind of reading or viewing that is “not safe for work.” We also take care of each other, breathing and blurring as the subway lines hum. This essay was written...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 31–34.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Extraction culture is filthy. It stinks and defiles. 2 And, Graeme Macdonald notes, extraction culture is all about depletion, requiring new and evolving sciences of supply and logistics. 3 Zones of extraction are, therefore, also spaces for challenging the invisible forces of global capital...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
... radio operators with their own system of towers and social clubs also relay information.21 And so the military co-­organizes the logistics of official disaster response with its civilian agency counter- part, but information about specific affected locales...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 21–34.
Published: 01 June 2005
... troops in Uzbekistan, and serving as a logistics supplier for the U.S. Navy.7 The relevance of the Elizabethan case to the present is also evident at the level of domestic oppression. Given the religious cleavage involved...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 137–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
... adequate to a set of mathematical vectors grounded in the capitalized logistics of the bourgeois family that included the calculus of sexual difference, of inheritance, property, and pleasure as well as that of class and the disavowal of race and, as important, particularly when history gets to Lacan...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 21–48.
Published: 01 June 2022
... are becoming increasingly environmental in scope, trafficking less in messages, content, and programs than in logistics, orientation, and control. But telecommuting reminds us that computers are habitual in a different way—the entry of computers into the home was seen as an opportunity to bring forward...
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