Logistics Genealogies

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ID2937893
AuthorsNiccoló Cuppini (0000-0002-5991-1891), Mattia Frapporti (0000-0002-8218-9956)
Year2018
Volume36
Issue3
Pages95-110
Publication date2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01642472-6917802
OpenAlexW2953207399
LanguageEN
Citations received13

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 not only bears the mark of these origins but also continues to transport its intrinsic antiblack racism and coloniality into new territories and social forms. In the conversation, we suggest that contemporary conceptions of surveillance, access, transparency, and improvement emerge from logistical capitalism and its origins. In the face of its sociopathic demands, we consider the potential of counterlogistics as a strategy against logistical capitalism, and we look to the undercommon concepts of logisticality and hapticality to glimpse the alternative in what Cedric Robinson called the black radical tradition

Capitalism · Conversation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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