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2022-05-13
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We relate logistics—the process of distributing merchandise—to the production of subjectivity—the process of creating forms of experience through mediations. We turn to logistics as a field where processes of subjectivation can be observed, but also as the framework for the theoretical analysis of processes of subjectivation. After asking why logistics lacks a strong public imaginary and reflecting critically on the dualist distinction instrumental/expressive, we will analyze three general features of some kinds of subjectivity that are typical of contemporary consumer societies: the cancelation of spacetime that separates desire and satisfaction, the need to compatibilize standardization and diversification, and the tension between rational calculation and an unpredictability of the processes which are subjected to a calculation which is due to the mediations that the calculation itself introduces. Our perspective is posthumanistic and cultural, taking as reference an ethnographic study carried out in different empirical locations linked to logistics.
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This is a Submitted Manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in "Subjectivity 15, 36–53", available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00128-5
Este es el manuscrito enviado del artículo publicado por Elsevier en "Subjectivity 15, 36–53", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00128-5
Este es el manuscrito enviado del artículo publicado por Elsevier en "Subjectivity 15, 36–53", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00128-5
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Logistics, Commodity, Ethnography, Self, Subjectivity
Citación
Cañedo-Rodríguez, Montserrat, Loredo-Narciandi, J.C. (2022).Calculation and contingency in contemporary global markets: the logistics of subjectivity. Subjectivity 15, 36–53 . https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00128-5
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Facultad de Filosofía
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Antropología Social y Cultural