The Arts of Logistics

Reviews / Votes

"This is the book about logistics and art that we have been waiting for. Both broad and deep enough to do justice to its topic, it is engagingly written and a pleasure to read." - Susan Zieger, University of California Riverside

"This book is by far one of the most brilliant books in a crop of very brilliant books on logistics. It is original, beautifully written, gorgeously illustrated, and it fizzes and pops with imagination, righteous outrage, hefty analysis, and humor." - Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter

"A brilliant examination of the logistical mode of artistic production. This is aesthetic theory down at the docks and across the sea - in solidarity, antagonistic, yet alive to the repurposing of logistical infrastructures within an artistic imagination." - Ned Rossiter, Western Sydney University

"This book, finally, presents a clear-eyed and frank assessment of the real political affordances and potential of artistic production at present, weighed against logistical capitalism and its ruthlessly pragmatic 'politics of operations', which are nothing if not efficient. It is underpinned by, and subterraneously develops, a theory of art's position in the constellation of political forces in the present. In this regard, it is an exemplary and relevant study for anyone interested in thinking about the intersections between art and the capitalist mode of production today, beyond the admittedly specialised subject of artistic production's relation to supply chains." - Steyn Bergs, Art History