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<p><a
href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions"><b>Minor
Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with
Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine Ho </b></a></p>
<p>This episode is a conversation around the new book <i>The Arts
of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism</i>
by Michael Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are joined by
Elaine Ho, who artistic practice explores similar areas. Through
this conversation explore how artistic practices intersect with
the global logistics systems that underpin contemporary
capitalism. Today the dynamics of logistical capitalism both shape
dynamics of artistic and cultural production as well as arguably
are shaped by their being intertwined those very forms of artistic
production. How might forms of art produced in the logistical mode
offer us a space for viewing infrastructure otherwise?<br>
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“We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply
chains—art included. In this major contribution to the study of
contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has
assembled a global inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that
reveals logistics to be a pervasive means of artistic production.
The Arts of Logistics provides a new map of supply chain
capitalism, scrutinizing how artists retool technologies designed
for circulating commodities. What emerges is a magisterial account
of the logistics revolution that foregrounds the role played by
art in the long downturn of global capitalism.”<br>
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Bio: Michael Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of
English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.<br>
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Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of art, social practice and
language — and since 2015, also a co-conspirator of Display
Distribute, a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and
again exhibition space, and sometimes shop founded in Kowloon,
Hong Kong. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of
low-end globalization into other subaltern networks and grammars,
Display Distribute’s recent activities include the experimental
infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research and archival unit
Shanzhai Lyric, and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden
feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.<br>
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Intro / outro music: Bow Gamelan Ensemble - Massed Percussion
(1988)<br>
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