Assembly codes: the logistics of media

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Some Assembly Required -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Logistics of Media -- PART I THE LOGISTICAL IMAGINATION: IMAGE, SOUND, SUBJECT -- 1. Habits of Assembly -- 2. "Shipped": Paper, Print, and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 3. Pan-African Logistics -- 4. The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics -- PART II LOGISTICAL INSTRUMENTS: EFFICIENCY, AUTOMATION, INTEROPERABILITY -- 5. Colonization's Logistical Media: The Ship and the Document -- 6. "Every Man within Earshot": Auditory Efficiency in the Time of the Telephone -- 7. Logistical Media Theory, the Politics of Time, and the Geopolitics of Automation -- PART III SUPPLY CHAIN MEDIA: DIGITIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, EXPLOITATION -- 8. Carry That Weight: The Costs of Delivery and the Ecology of Vinyl Records' Revival -- 9. Supply Chain Cinema, Supply Chain Education: Training Creative Wizardry for Offshored Exploitation -- 10. The Politics of Cable Supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine -- 11. Laugh Out Loud -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Some assembly required / John Durham Peters -- Introduction: The logistics of media / Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Zieger -- Habits of assembly / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten -- Inter: Storage solutions -- "Shipped": paper, print, and the Atlantic slave trade / Susan Zieger -- Inter: Logistical magic -- Pan-African logistics / Ebony Coletu -- Inter: The march of data -- The pulse of global passage : listening to logistics / Shannon Mattern -- Inter: beneath the Great White Way -- Colonization's logistical media: the ship and the document / Liam Cole Young -- Inter: Always already assembled -- "Every man within earshot" : auditory efficiency in the time of the telephone / Matthew Hockenberry -- Inter: Logistical software -- Logistical media theory, the politics of time, and the geopolitics of automation / Ned Rossiter -- Inter: "It's loud and it's tasteless and I've heard it before" -- Carry that weight : the costs of delivery and the ecology of vinyl records' revival / Michael Palm -- Inter: Sound from a music container -- Supply chain cinema, supply chain education : training creative wizardry for offshored exploitation / Kay Dickinson -- Inter: Forklift cinema -- The politics of cable supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine / Nicole Starosielski -- Inter: Who watches the watchers? -- Laugh out loud / Tung-Hui Hu.