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We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a global inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that reveals logistics to be a pervasive means of artistic production. The Arts of Logistics provides a new map of supply chain capitalism, scrutinizing how artists retool technologies designed for circulating commodities. What emerges is a magisterial account of the logistics revolution that foregrounds the role played by art in the long downturn of global capitalism.
With chapters on art produced from technologies including ships, barrels, containers, and drones, Boyle narrates the long history of art''s connection to logistics, beginning in the transatlantic slave trade and continuing today in Silicon Valley''s dreams of automation. The global reach of the artists considered reflects the geographies of supply chain capitalism it
