Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media

Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media

Hockenberry, Matthew
Starosielski, Nicole
Zieger, Susan

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 147800973X
ISBN13: 9781478009733
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 10 2021
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Sociology

View All