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      Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism

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          In recent years, geographers have evinced how infrastructure constitutes the bedrock of supply chain capitalism and its oppressions. This article interrogates how advanced automation – comprising robotics, artificial intelligence and software – is poised to politicize this infrastructural space further on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on COVID-19 developments, the article shows how logistics is turning to advanced automation to drive productivity outside labour, spur self-service consumption through digital technologies and contest labour’s future. As automated infrastructure threatens to take hold, a configuration of exchange that increasingly places labour, but not profits, outside of capital’s circulations will need to be challenged

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Prog Hum Geogr
                Prog Hum Geogr
                PHG
                spphg
                Progress in Human Geography
                SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                0309-1325
                1477-0288
                April 2022
                April 2022
                April 2022
                : 46
                : 2
                : 463-483
                Affiliations
                [1-03091325211038718]National University of Singapore, Singapore
                Author notes
                [*]Weiqiang Lin, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, AS2 #04-17 Singapore 117570. Email: weiqiang@ 123456nus.edu.sg
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5484-0860
                Article
                10.1177_03091325211038718
                10.1177/03091325211038718
                8984595
                35400791
                b159b076-a4eb-48c2-a7cf-04d794362b46
                © The Author(s) 2021

                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.

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                Funded by: Social Science and Humanities Fellowship;
                Award ID: MOE2018-SSHR-002
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                automation,covid-19,digital technologies,labour,logistics,infrastructure,supply chain capitalism

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