Tag: logistics

Furnishing Intelligence

“Furnishing Intelligence,” Perspecta 51: Medium (Yale School of Architecture, 2018).

The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics (2018)

Keynote, Princeton-Weimar Summer School, Princeton University, June 18, 2018

Columbia Faculty Seminar on Media Theory and History, Columbia University, September 17, 2018

Sound Studies Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, April 12, 2019

Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, April 18, 2019

Text forthcoming in Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Zieger, eds., Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (Duke University Press, 2019)

Mattern ListeningToLogistics by shannonmattern on Scribd

Videos embedded in slides:

Slide 2: The Wire, Season 2 opening credits
Slide 8: Alan Sekula and Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space, 2010
Slide 27: Alex Hallajian, The Art of Stevedore, 2015
Slide 41: Encyclopedia Britannica, The Seaport, 1962 [2:16 – 2:55, 13:35 – 14:01]
Slide 55: Allan Sekula on Fish Story, Architectural Association, London, October 11, 1999 [20:34 – 21:48]
Slide 59: Mountain Leverage, How Voice Picking Works
Slide 60: Honeywell Intelligrated, Voice Picking Demo
Slide 74: Wesley Goatley and Georgina Voss, Familiars

Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics

“Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics,” Urban Omnibus (June 24, 2015)

Reprint: “Behind New York’s Library Network,” Motherboard (July 21, 2015)

Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum

October 1932, London, England, UK --- A scene inside one of London's largest telegraph offices where 50 million telegrams pass every year. The pneumatic pressure tubes are visible which carry messages to and from post offices in the City and the West End. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

“Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum” In John Knechtel, Ed., AIR, Alphabet City #15 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010) on pneumatic tubes