On April 24th, I am honored to be in dialogue with Ashley Carse, Juan De Lara, & Deborah Cowen discussing #OilBeach. 12 noon Pacific, Zoom. It's open to anyone & organizers will provide attendees with a portion of the 📙 to read.

(It's also on sale if purchased from @UChicagoPress using code UCPNEW, 30% off)

Info to register:
https://calendar.usc.edu/event/levan_institute_for_the_humanities_book_chatschristina_dunbar-hester_oil_beach_how_toxic_infrastructure_threatens_life_in_the_ports_of_los_angeles_and_beyond#.Y-a3zOzMI-T

#NewBooks #STS #Ecology @geography #AcademicMastodon #oil #CriticalLogistics #Commodon @academicchatter #EnvHist #California

"By flattening the interests of capital into the interests of an
“American public,” economic growth is framed in elite language as a proxy for
public welfare"

-Charmaine Chua, "Lineages of Infrastructural Power: Los Angeles as a Logistical Nightmare"

#CriticalLogistics #InfrastructureStudies #capitalism #LosAngeles

This was such a nice conversation! Thank you @dollyjorgensen @finnarne for the opportunity to chat with you and the #Greenhouse 🌱 audience about #OilBeach!

Recording is here: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/booktalk/online-book-talk-dunbar-hester-oil-beach/

(Also you will learn how to say "San Pedro" like a local)

#NewBooks #EnvHist #EnvHum @sts #STS @geography #Conservation #California #CriticalLogistics #Energy #Oil

I'm hiring 2 PhDs and a Postdoc in Rotterdam as part of an ERC-funded ethnographic project on racial capitalism and critical logistics! Deadline 4 June to start 1 Sept.

More details, and please note I'll be away in April/May:

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325284/two-phd-positions-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-2-x-1fte/

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325285/postdoctoral-researcher-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-10fte/

#racialcapitalism #criticallogistics #sts #academia #Phd #postdoc #ethnhography #research #erc

🛢️ 🏖️ This Oil Beach 📙 talk in the @dollyjorgensen Greenhouse series is coming up in a week! Monday 20 March, online, 4pm Norway/11am Eastern.

https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/booktalk/online-book-talk-dunbar-hester-oil-beach/

(In conjunction, the book is 30% off with code UCPNEW from https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html)

#OilBeach #BookTalk #NewBooks @ecologies @sts #ClimateCrisis #Greenhouse #Energy #Oil #Conservation #EnvHist @geography #Commodon #CriticalLogistics #STS @academicchatter

Important 🧵 from @athena on community resistance to the pollution & exploitation that accompany mega logistics:

https://union.place/@athena/109972270285903780

Incidentally, can anyone recommend literature on this phenomenon of industry "strategically co-opting the language of 'community benefits'" (downthread)? I'm seeing a lot of this too and I'm sure someone's written about it; would like to read/cite. Thx!

@communicationscholars #Commodon #STS @academicchatter #CriticalLogistics

🍄 ⛓️ In addition to the pragmatic ask (please boost that post! ⬇️), #UFW crowd-sourcing for help tracing mushrooms through #SupplyChain is fascinating to me as bottom-up supply chain governance.

In #OilBeach, I speculate about "trans-species supply chain justice", holding #labor, community sovereignty, & #ecology concerns together--& bringing #infrastructure #chokepoints into view as contested spaces.

https://union.place/@inquiline/109932101850796256

#CriticalLogistics #InfrastructureStudies #STS

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

Compare and contrast the above with how the Port of Long Beach portrays itself in its public relations. Hm. Much to say vis a vis #lnfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics ... more in the 📙 ! End 🧵

"The current plan to defend the #port entails shoring up infrastructure, hardening the port’s defenses against rising tides and extreme weather. I wondered, though, about the wisdom of this. Instead of doubling down on the system that brought us here, I thought, what if we stopped to ask whether the logistical #infrastructure we’ve built is the one we actually want?" YES.

Great piece from @miriamkp https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/
#InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #ClimateCrisis #DataStudies

"The current plan to defend the port entails shoring up infrastructure, hardening the port’s defenses against rising tides and extreme weather. I wondered, though, about the wisdom of this. Instead of doubling down on the system that brought us here, I thought, what if we stopped to ask whether the logistical infrastructure we’ve built is the one we actually want?" YES. Great piece from @miriamkp https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/
#InfrastructureStudies #Port #CriticalLogistics #ClimateCrisis #DataStudies

"The current plan to defend the port entails shoring up infrastructure, hardening the port’s defenses against rising tides and extreme weather. I wondered, though, about the wisdom of this. Instead of doubling down on the system that brought us here, I thought, what if we stopped to ask whether the logistical infrastructure we’ve built is the one we actually want?" YES. Great piece from @miriamkp https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/
#InfrastructureStudies #Port #CriticalLogistics

Logistics nerds *must* check out Manifest, Matthew Hockenberry and Colette Perold's platform for mapping and analyzing supply chains. It's amazing, and I especially love how it begins by mapping its *own* supply chain. https://manifest.supplystudies.com/ #criticallogistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #logistics #scm

Very happy to share that Colette Perold and I have been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to build a research network and curriculum for #humanities work in #criticallogistics and supply chain studies Manifest (https://manifest.supplystudies.com)!!

We will be sharing a call in the coming months for projects / researchers interested in supply chain mapping / storytelling / visualization across disciplines like #mediastudies #communication #history #culturalstudies #sts & more!

As fully autonomous ships get closer to reality, fleet operators imagine operations centers where a single “captain” can oversee multiple vessels. Found this video fascinating. https://youtu.be/UPtdgiIrlJI #criticalinfrastructrestudies #criticallogistics #criticaldatastudies

My latest piece for Logic Magazine is available! What happens when ships become data? A lot of weird stuff, possibly. https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/

#criticalinfrastructrestudies #criticallogistics #criticaldatastudies

I have an article, “Ghost Ships,” in the new issue of Logic. It’s about why global shipping runs on paper, the gold rush to change that, and the Middle Passage. I believe it’ll be available openly at some point, but you can buy it in print or digitally now: https://logicmag.io/pivot/ #criticallogistics #criticainfrastructure #logistics #criticaldatastudies

📦 🚚 The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, "how #Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global #capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist."

Download e-book (free):
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Edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese #NewBooks #CriticalLogistics #Labor #Free

"Logistical imagination: Logistical technologies have always been accompanied by new ways of seeing and listening, reading and knowing, thinking and moving—which have themselves catalyzed crucial shifts in our modes of communication"

-intro to #AssemblyCodes

https://www.dukeupress.edu/assembly-codes

#CriticalLogistics #MediaStudies #Commodon #NewBooks