Logistical gazes: introduction to a special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Logistical gazes: introduction to a special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Author(s): Carlotta Benvegnù , Niccolò Cuppini , Mattia Frapporti , Floriano Milesi , Maurilio Pirone

Publication date (Print): 1 April 2019

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: logistics, mobility, labour, counter-logistics, spatialities

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This article introduces this special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on logistics. First of all, it furnishes a brief genealogy of logistics in the modern era. Then, it frames some of the main issues in current critical debates on logistics. Finally, it presents the contents of the special issue in detail, connecting them with more general attempts to develop a ‘logistical gaze’ as a methodological perspective on the different and multiple transformations of contemporary capitalism.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50010512

Journal ID (jcode): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN: 1745-641X

ISSN: 1745-6428

Publication date (Print): 1 April 2019

Volume: 13

Issue: 1 ( doiID: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.issue-1 )

Pages: 9-14

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Keywords: counter-logistics,labour,logistics,mobility,spatialities

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[1] Allen, W.B. (1997) ‘The logistics revolution and transportation', The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 553:106-16.

[2] Bologna, S. (1972) ‘Class composition and the theory of the party at the origin of the workers-council movement', Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary, 13 (3):4-27.

[3] Bologna, S. (2010) Le multinazionali del mare. Letture sul sistema marittimo-portuale [The multinationals of the sea. Readings on the maritime-port system], Milan: EGEA.

[4] Brenner, N. (2004) New State Spaces, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[5] Brenner, N. (ed.) (2014) Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Berlin: Jovis.

[6] Castells, M. (1996) The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

[7] Cowen, D. (2014) The Deadly Life of Logistics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

[8] Cuppini, N., M. Frapporti & M. Pirone (2015) ‘Logistics struggles in the po valley region: Territorial transformations and processes of antagonistic subjectivation', The South Atlantic Quarterly, 114 (1):119-34.

[9] Dyer-Witheford, N. (2015) Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex, London: Pluto Press.

[10] Easterling, K. (2014) Extrastatecraft, London: Verso Books.

[11] Harvey, D. (2001) Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, New York: Routledge.

[12] Into the Black Box (2018) ‘Manifesto di critica logistica’ [Manifesto of logistical criticism], Zapruder, 46:134-43. Accessed September 18, 2018 from http://www.intotheblackbox.com/manifesto/critical-logistics-a-manifesto/.

[13] Lefebvre, H. (1974) ‘La production de l'espace’ [The production of space], L'Homme et la société, 31-32, 15-32.

[14] Mezzadra, S. & B. Neilson (2013) Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, Durham: Duke University Press.

[15] Neilson, B. (2012) ‘Five theses on understanding logistics as power', Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 13 (3):322-39.

[16] Sassen, S. (2001) The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[17] Scholz, T. (2012) Digital Labor, New York: Routledge.

[18] Srnicek, N. (2017) Platform Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press.

[19] Toscano, A. (2011) ‘Logistics and opposition', Metamute.org Mute, August 9. Accessed August 9, 2011 from http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/logistics-and-opposition.

[20] Tsing, A. (2009) ‘Supply chains and the human condition', Rethinking Marxism, 21 (2):148-76.