Logistical Worlds » admin https://logisticalworlds.org Infrastructure, Software, Labour Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:19:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.29 Somateca Linea Tiempo https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:30 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=665 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo/feed 0 Ventana Contaminacion Personas en Chile https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:19 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=654 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile/feed 0 The New Ikonion-Thriassion Rail Line https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/new-ikonion https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/new-ikonion#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:59:37 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=285 Anna Lascari Anything new carries an aura of a promise and consequently an expectation. The not yet operational New Ikonion – Thriassion rail line does exactly that, as it unfolds from its origin in the heavily guarded Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) facilities to the under construction Thriassion Freight and Intermodal Center. Scenarios about Cosco’s expansion […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/new-ikonion/feed 0 Containment https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/containment https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/containment#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:04:42 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=287 Ursula Huws  A baby sardine Saw his first submarine And cried as he looked through the peephole ‘Oh come, come, come’, said the sardine’s mum It’s only a tin full of people Spike Milligan, 1968. The container is simultaneously both one of the most concrete examples of the economic logic that enables global capitalism to […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/containment/feed 0 Dockworker Masculinities https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/dockworker-masculinities https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/dockworker-masculinities#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 06:47:41 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=279 Nelli Kambouri Labour struggles in the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) are dominated by tactics of controlling the limit between normal hours and overtime as well as occupying and bringing the port to a standstill. The division of labour along gender lines is a direct product of the composition of labour subjectivities that emerged in the […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/dockworker-masculinities/feed 0 Metal Scrappers: Connectivity and Flexibility of the Marginalised https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/metal-scrappers https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/metal-scrappers#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:06:27 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=289 Carolin Philipp Pier II at Piraeus is a site where various transnational transportation networks coalesce. Leased to China’s Cosco, the global hub receives, reloads, transfers and consigns goods stored in containers. Pier II is mainly used for the trans-shipment of containers that – immediately and without taxation – leave the harbour after being reloaded on […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/metal-scrappers/feed 0 Trojan Horses, Black Holes and the Impossibility of Labour Struggles https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/trojan-horses-black-holes https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/trojan-horses-black-holes#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:59:08 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=277 Dimitris Parsanoglou One of the most significant facets of the current crisis in Greece is linked to the readjustment of labour relations. Apart from austerity measures, all major legislative initiatives, imposed in the framework of bailout loans and rescue packages provided by the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/trojan-horses-black-holes/feed 0 The Newly Builts and the Aspropyrgos Zone: Illegality, Racism, Infrastructures https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/newly-builts-aspropyrgos-zone https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/newly-builts-aspropyrgos-zone#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:55:57 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=283 Ilias Marmaras The Newly Builts (Neoktista), located along the route of the new Ikonion-Thriassio rail line, are chosen as a spatial node for this research. They are a site of open racialised tension between ethnic Greek and Roma inhabitants, who accused of being responsible for the degradation of the town due to their involvement in […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/newly-builts-aspropyrgos-zone/feed 0 Software, Machines, People and Things as Tangled Species https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/software-machines-people https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/software-machines-people#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:40:32 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=281 Pavlos Hatzopoulos First Event: The mobile phone of an assistant manager of Cosco subsidiary, Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT), rings while he is guiding two journalists around Piers II and III of Piraeus port. The assistant manager is urgently called by his interlocutor to solve a crisis. A client company is complaining that its reefer container […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/software-machines-people/feed 0 https://logisticalworlds.org/portfolio/participants https://logisticalworlds.org/portfolio/participants#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:52:34 +0000 http://localhost:8888/logisticalworlds.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=57 Participants Hernán Cuevas  Pavlos Hatzopoulos  Ursula Huws  Eleni Kambouri  Sandro Mezzadra  Brett Neilson  Ned Rossiter  Ranabir Samaddar  William Walters  

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