[Commlist] New book: Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media Edited

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, 
which we hope will be of interest.

*Assembly Codes***

The Logistics of Media

*Edited by Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski & Susan Zieger *

*Foreword by John Durham Peters***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478010760/assembly-codes/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478010760/assembly-codes/>_*

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“Extending vital histories of transportation and communication, this 
book explores mediation’s long dance with logistics. Media are not 
static: they form via the coordinated movement of materials, the 
calculating logics of supply chains, and the dynamic activities of 
networks. /Assembly Codes/gathers top thinkers who unfurl new paths for 
understanding media and logistics and boldly confront issues of 
difference, geopolitics, and planetary resources in the process.”*—Lisa 
Parks, Distinguished Professor of Film & Media Studies, University of 
California, Santa Barbara*

“In this exciting volume, leading and innovative scholars outline how 
logistics brings about new ways of seeing, imagining, and engaging the 
world as well as the ways in which logistics and media technologies 
underpin each other. Unparalleled in its conceptual richness and 
empirical diversity, /Assembly Codes/makes a major contribution to 
scholarly debates about logistics and will shape research to 
come.”*—Deborah Cowen, author of **/The Deadly Life of Logistics: 
Mapping Violence in Global Trade/***

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The contributors to /Assembly Codes/examine how media and logistics set 
the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They 
document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the 
movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially 
impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media. At the 
same time, physical media, such as paperwork, along with media 
technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the 
operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging 
from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet 
infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation, 
distribution, and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical 
technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In 
charting the specific points of contact, dependence, and friction 
between media and logistics, /Assembly Codes/demonstrates that media and 
logistics are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart 
from the other.

Contributors:Fred Moten, Ebony Coletu, Shannon Mattern, Liam Cole Young, 
Ned Rossiter, Michael Palm, Kay Dickinson, Tung-Hui Hu, John Durham 
Peters, Stefano Harney

*Matthew Hockenberry*is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media 
Studies at Fordham University.

*Nicole Starosielski*is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and 
Communication at New York University.

*Susan Zieger*is Professor of English at the University of California, 
Riverside.She is the author of /Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and 
Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature./

*John Durham Peters*is Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of 
Film and Media Studies at Yale University.



*Duke University Press | September 2021 | 264pp | 9781478010760 | PB | 
£20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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