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The Arts of Logistics : Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism / Michael Shane Boyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Michael Shane, author.
- Series:
- Post 45.
- Post*45 Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and business logistics.
- Arts, Modern--20th century.
- Arts, Modern.
- Arts, Modern--21st century.
- Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains—art included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a global inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that reveals logistics to be a pervasive means of artistic production. The Arts of Logistics provides a new map of supply chain capitalism, scrutinizing how artists retool technologies designed for circulating commodities. What emerges is a magisterial account of the logistics revolution that foregrounds the role played by art in the long downturn of global capitalism. With chapters on art produced from technologies including ships, barrels, containers, and drones, Boyle narrates the long history of art's connection to logistics, beginning in the transatlantic slave trade and continuing today in Silicon Valley's dreams of automation. The global reach of the artists considered reflects the geographies of supply chain capitalism itself. In taking stock of how performance, sculpture, and popular culture are entangled in trade and racialized labor regimes, Boyle profiles influential work by artists such as Christo and Allan Kaprow alongside that of contemporary figures including Cai Guo-Qiang and Selina Thompson. This incisive study demonstrates that art and logistics are linked by the infrastructures and violence that keep supply chains moving.
- Contents:
- The ship: salvage spectacles
- The oil barrel: supply chain pipedreams
- The shipping container: levers of dispossession
- The drone: last-mile gimmicks.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4044-2
- OCLC:
- 1450103329
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