Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves. Host and correspondent Alexis Madrigal leads you through the world of ships and sailors, technology and tugboats, warehouses and cranes. At a time when Donald Trump is threatening to toss out the global economic order, Containers provides an illuminating, deep, and weird look at how capitalism actually works now.
5th April 2017
Notes: 15
"Fetishising the boxes doesn’t make the network better legible. It doesn’t make the consequences of zero-sum consumerism any more apparent. The node is not the network."
— Matthew Sheret; “The Container is not the Shipping” :: http://matthewsheret.com/2014/08/28/the-container-is-not-the-shipping/
“The Economist Explains” Cargo Containers" (via @hockendougal)
AT FIRST glance they may just appear to be humble metal boxes. But containers—uniform boxes that can be easily moved between lorry, train and ship—have reshaped global trade over the past few decades. Why have containers boosted trade so much?
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