Cartographies of empire, and beyond: the logistics of life and death

Cowen elaborates on questions of materiality, circulation, and empire to make some of the conceptual infrastructure of The Deadly Life of Logistics more explicit. She tries to explain why, in an era of seemingly instant and immaterial movement of everything, she center her lens on the spatial circul...

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Published in:Political geography Vol. 61; p. 268
Main Author: Cowen, Deborah
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Elsevier Science Ltd 01-11-2017
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Summary:Cowen elaborates on questions of materiality, circulation, and empire to make some of the conceptual infrastructure of The Deadly Life of Logistics more explicit. She tries to explain why, in an era of seemingly instant and immaterial movement of everything, she center her lens on the spatial circulation and material flows that underpin capital circulation. Here, she insists on a politics of reproduction that locates a logistical mode of production within a (logistical) social factory and a (logistical) war machine.
ISSN:0962-6298
1873-5096