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

Wed Oct 27 06:59:53 GMT 2021




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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