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Software, Infrastructure, Labor - A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (Paperback)
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Software, Infrastructure, Labor - A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (Paperback)
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Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics
governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism
correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on
a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical
media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society
are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability.
Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are
prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure.
Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes
of calculation and containment. We live in a computational age
where media, again, disappear into the background as
infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts
transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters
ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in
China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game
design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter
argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the
collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical
politics today.
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