Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20

This episode is a conversation around the new book The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism by Michael Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are joined by Elaine W. Ho, who artistic practice explores similar areas to those explored in Shane’s work. 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?

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Minor Compositions is a research theorizing publishing project that is located, at the moment, within the London metropolitan basin of collective intelligence. Its main aim is to bring together, develop, and mutate forms of autonomist thought and practice, avant-garde aesthetics, and an everyday approach to politics. The Minor Compositions Podcast is produced in collaboration with Firefly Frequencies.