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Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021)

Matthew Hockenberry (Editor)
Starosielski, Nicole (Editor)
Zieger, Susan (Editor)

Duke University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

ISBN: 9781478009733

Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 264

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The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from the other. Contributors Ebony Coletu, Kay Dickinson, Stefano Harney, Matthew Hockenberry, Tung-Hui Hu, Shannon Mattern, Fred Moten, Michael Palm, Ned Rossiter, Nicole Starosielski, Liam Cole Young, Susan Zieger

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Review Noah Arceneaux (2023) Review of "Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media". Technology and Culture (pp. 604-606). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Starosielski, Nicole (2021) The Politics of Cable Supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Forklift Cinema. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Kay Dickinson (2021) Supply Chain Cinema, Supply Chain Education: Training Creative Wizardry for Offshored Exploitation. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Sound from a Music Container. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Palm, Michael (2021) Carry That Weight: The Costs of Delivery and the Ecology of Vinyl Records’ Revival. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) “It’s Loud and It’s Tasteless and I’ve Heard It Before”. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Ned Rossiter (2021) Logistical Media Theory, the Politics of Time, and the Geopolitics of Automation. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Logistical Software. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Matthew Hockenberry (2021) “Every Man Within Earshot”: Auditory Efficiency in the Time of the Telephone. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Always Already Assembled. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Liam Cole Young (2021) Colonization’s Logistical Media: The Ship and the Document. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Beneath the Great White Way. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Mattern, Shannon Christine (2021) The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) The March of Data. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Ebony Coletu (2021) Pan-African Logistics. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2021) Logistical Magic. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Zieger, Susan (2021) “Shipped”: Paper, Print, and the Atlantic Slave Trade. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Zieger, Susan; Starosielski, Nicole (2021) Storage Solutions. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

Chapter Fred Moten; Stefano Harney (2021) Habits of Assembly. In: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. unapi

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