Shipping Container

AvCraig Martin

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Engelska, 2016

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-28
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501303166
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Serie:Object Lessons

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Craig Martin is Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture (2011).

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Craig Martin has brought real love and insight to the logistical life of the shipping container. He reveals its role in the distributive space of extensive global networks and other dark places and their knotty politics, without ever losing track of our personal attachment and alienation to this box of ubiquity, this vessel of choreographed capitalism. Shipping Container is an efficient little package, calculating, brisk, economical, and yet, it is anything but a standardized account; it just sings.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Packaging Stuff2. 20 x 40 x 8 feet: Design and Development of a Global Object3. Twist Lock: Global Object of Capitalism4. Breaking the Seal: Illicit Lives of the Container5. Four Walls: Container Afterlives:6. Conclusion: Global Object to ComeIndex