Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conveyor Belt, Costco, Ikea

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

Containerization changed the world : everything put into a box, shipped around the globe. Largest carrier of shipping containers in the world. Changing the way the world thinks about shipping with regards to sustainability. Can come to see things like modernity and war in a different way. May perhaps develop a different relationship to our world. The economy is an exercise in logistics: preparation, transportation, storage, mobilization (of resources on a planetary scale) Today"s supply chains are distinguished not just by their planetary extension and incredible speed but by their direct integration of manufacture and retail, their harmonization of the rhythms of production and consumption. - jasper bernes, logistics, counterlogistics, and the. Not just the means by which things and people are moved from one place to another. We have come to eschew the necessity of going to smaller retailers, replacing this with big box warehouses such as costco and ikea.