Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Containerization, Planetary System, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
15 Mar 2018
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Containers more than bring about fundamental change to the exchange of commodity. Reformed working culture, a standardized container has replaced the labour intensive process with machine enabled process. Makes global shipping cheap capitalist production and global trade could not be where it is now without containerization global trade would be minimal without it. Changed the world underlining rational sanctions the flattening of the world to facilitate the uninterrupted flow of containers (pic above is flattening) Strucutres and encodes ebverything in the realm of these processes eliminates obstacles, and increase of speed and amount transported. Process imposes grid on earth frame of which the earth is bound. Anything that cant fit in this box is useless to us and forgotten nihilism. Maximize commodities while minimizing path it takes to get there = primary thought process. Reduces what it touches to zones of homogenous stacks.
