Logistics and Power
Supply chains from Slavery to Space
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure
Race, Affect, Environment
Assembly Codes
The Logistics of Media
The Mediated Mind
Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century
Inventing the Addict
Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
Upcoming Events
Susan Zieger will deliver a public lecture, “Against Henry Box Brown, Logistics, and Racial Capitalism,” as part of the mini-residency hosted by Prof. Jessica Valdez and the students of ENGL 7962.
Susan Zieger discusses the backlash against shipping container art and architecture in comparison to two other capitalist forms of containment, grain elevators and water towers.
Susan Zieger explains how legitimate and illicit markets for drugs and counterfeits become entangled through their shared logistical means.
Book your free spotSusan Zieger reveals the military history behind the concept of the logistical nightmare through the figure of the Crimean War provisioner Mary Seacole.
Susan Zieger explains how legitimate and illicit markets for drugs and counterfeits become entangled through their shared logistical means.
Susan Zieger describes how notorious nineteenth-century warehouse conflagrations in New York and London remade urban logistics and real estate markets.
Susan Zieger is a professor of English at the University of California in Riverside who writes about the modern history and literature of consumerism. Growing up in Staten Island, New York, the surrounding skyline filled with the gantry cranes of New Jersey ports and the World Trade Center looming across New York Harbor, Susan was intrigued from a young age by global trade. Susan holds a Ph.D. in English literature from UC Berkeley, and a MSc in the history of science, medicine, and technology from Imperial College, London. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Italy.
Praise
for Logistics and Power
Logistical Power imaginatively weaves disciplines, geographies, and historical periods together to create a new, and truly exceptional, vision of the supply chain. A beautifully composed, counter-logistical story about one of the most complex objects of our time, this book is essential reading.
author of Media Hot and Cold and The Undersea Network
Through vivid storytelling, Logistics and Power reveals how supply chains shape our world. Zieger deftly weaves multiple narratives to show how logistics—far more than moving stuff around—functions as both physical infrastructure and conceptual framework, transforming our understanding of modernity, power, and resistance.
co-author of The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World
Susan Zieger brilliantly exposes the subtle yet pervasive structures of logistical power and shows why reimagining them is key to a more just future. Zieger not only illuminates the circuits of exploitation at the heart of capitalism’s supply chains but also sketches out counter-logistical possibilities that resist this system and harness collective action. Her compelling prose invites us to move beyond convenience and guilt, urging us to envision a future where we can all move—and be moved—in more collective and transformative ways.
author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World
We can think logistically about the world to the extent that it has become logistical. This book captures that change in flight, a bravura exposition of a world-picture coming into view as the lineaments of that world — our world — undergo their own sea change.
author of Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings
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