5. Colonization’s Logistical Media: The Ship and the Document

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword: Some Assembly Required vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Logistics of Media 1
6. PART I THE LOGISTICAL IMAGINATION: IMAGE, SOUND, SUBJECT
7. 1. Habits of Assembly 23
8. 2. “Shipped”: Paper, Print, and the Atlantic Slave Trade 34
9. 3. Pan-African Logistics 54
10. 4. The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics 75
11. PART II LOGISTICAL INSTRUMENTS: EFFICIENCY, AUTOMATION, INTEROPERABILITY
12. 5. Colonization’s Logistical Media: The Ship and the Document 91
13. 6. “Every Man within Earshot”: Auditory Efficiency in the Time of the Telephone 113
14. 7. Logistical Media Theory, the Politics of Time, and the Geopolitics of Automation 132
15. PART III SUPPLY CHAIN MEDIA: DIGITIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, EXPLOITATION
16. 8. Carry That Weight: The Costs of Delivery and the Ecology of Vinyl Records’ Revival 151
17. 9. Supply Chain Cinema, Supply Chain Education: Training Creative Wizardry for Offshored Exploitation 171
18. 10. The Politics of Cable Supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine 190
19. 11. Laugh Out Loud 207
20. Selected Bibliography 225
21. Contributors 235
22. Index 239