“Trump and Infrastructure” An overview of Bay Area logistical infrastructures facilitated by Empire Logistics: vulnerabilities, key sites of struggles, and important connections to broader dynamics along the global supply chain. […]
East Bay Community Mapping Workshop
10–3pm, Sunday September 25th 101 Broadway Oakland, CA This day-long open research session seeks to bring together local housing, labor, infrastructure, ecology and data/open access activists to make connections among […]
Kalifornia
Presented as part of the panel “Art and Logistical Disruption” at the Arts of Logistics conference at Queen Mary University of London. Sunday, June 6, 2016 This presentation argues that […]
Southern California: Capitalist Gateway
Presented at Angels Gate Cultural Center, in conjunction with the exhibition HOLD UP Sunday, March 6 1 pm Free with Ken Ehrlich, and A.W. from the L.A. ONDA collective Southern […]
Warehouse Worker Inquiry
NOTE: The questions listed below assume a substantial degree of trust has already been established and the worker is comfortable with describing his or her work situation. The purpose of […]
Mapping the Cybernetic Supernode
Presented at the David Brower Center in partnership with Empire Logistics Monday, November 30 7 pm Free How do products move through our spaces, and why does it matter? This […]
The Chinese Logistical Sublime and Its Wasted Remains
Sent from Taipei, the last post in a container ship ethnography.
In Non-Places, No One Can Hear You Cry
Post 4 in a series of ethnographic notes sent from the Pacific Ocean.
Landlessness and the Life of Seamen
The bow of the ship is the only place on the Ever Cthulhu that affords a modicum of silence. To get there, you walk down the length of the narrow […]
The Quiet Port is Logistics’ Nightmare
It is 3am on a Wednesday when we pick up the Port Angeles pilot who will take the ship through the Puget Sound. All day, we have been sailing through […]