
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
- Publisher
- Humboldt Books
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 978-88-99385-68-2
- Specifications
- Paperback with French flaps, sewn binding, hot foil Colour
17 x 24 cm
128 pages
Text by Neeraj Bhatia, Carola Hein, Jesse LeCavalier, Francesco Marullo, Han Meyer, Lóránt Tavasszy, Alberto Toscano, Maria Chiara Tosi, Paola Viganò and Guido Zucconi
Design by b-r-u-n-o.it
b/w
English
With the support of Delft University of Technology – DIMI Delft Deltas, Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative, Delft University of Technology – Department of Urbanism, Chair of Urban Design Theory & Methods, EFL Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Stichting
The architecture of logistics is profoundly political. It measures, maps and modulates the terrain through its projection of power-relations onto the topography. It creates spatial networks that are constituted through the circulation of capital and calibrated to meet the requirements for security and risk management. Such a direct translation of risk factors and economic values into a spatial configuration inevitably produces a territory that is alienated from both the natural topography and forms of labor. The book is an inquiry into the nature of changing paradigms in logistics. It aims to offer a cross-disciplinary platform for an exchange of ideas among artists, architects, historians, philosophers, engineers and planners. We believe that it is only through cultivating a common imaginary that we will be able to know, resist and effectively work against and from within the logistical system that shapes our lives, territories and cities.
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