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The Arts of Logistics

Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism
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  • The Arts of Logistics on Hardback by Michael Shane Boyle
  • The Arts of Logistics on Hardback by Michael Shane Boyle
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We live in a world spun 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 surprisingly 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. Through this incisive study, Boyle demonstrates that art and logistics are linked by the infrastructures and violence that keep supply chains moving.

Author Biography:

Michael Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.
Release date Australia
September 10th, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
296
Series
ISBN-13
9781503640047
Product ID
38633320

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