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Matthew Hockenberry

@mhockenberry.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Fordham University working on media, supply chains, logistics past / present. Supply Studies: supplystudies.com Manifest: manifest.supplystudies.com Assembly Codes: dukeupress.edu/assembly-codes

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As a kid there was nothing more exciting then when one of the magazines my parents subscribed me to would come in the mail. I would read it for the entire month until the next one. My kid has access to so much he can’t understand this concept at all.
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Always excited to see logistics memes in the wild!
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
From Matthew Hockenberry’s Chap. 4 (“Manifesting Connection: Digital Humanities for the Critical Study of Logistics”) in _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ (pp. 103-104 in print edition), dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica.... @mhockenberry.bsky.social, uminnpress.bsky.social
From Matthew Hockenberry’s Chap. 4 (“Manifesting Connection: Digital Humanities for the Critical Study of Logistics”) in _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ (pp. 103-104 in print edition):

"This chapter takes up the idea of the manifest to survey how the digital humanities (DH) and allied approaches like human-computer interaction (HCI), data visualization, and others engage with the critical study of logistics, especially with regard to the spatial and nonspatial visualization of logistical networks, media representations and aesthetic imaginations of logistical sites, and close readings of logistical training regimes and logistical software systems. In examining the projects in this survey, I consider how approaches such as the digital mapping of infrastructures for global logistics are shared. Given that industry software and management pedagogy have historically treated the spatialization of logistical processes as largely supplemental to the management of those processes, and that—when geographic perspectives have been adopted—they have been deployed in the service of self-interested corporate discourse on supply chain transparency and resilience, I argue that special care must be taken in implementing digital approaches. Drawing from my own work on Manifest, a new tool for visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains and trade networks (further discussed later in this chapter), I argue for models centered around the act of “manifesting connection”—not only of logistical networks, but of the external points of contact that situate these networks in broader patterns of sociality, while also outlining the ethical dimensions at stake and the future challenges that will emerge."
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026
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Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tenured!
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 08/02/2026
urbanomnibus.net/2026/02/wher... This is a very cool project reverse engineering Amazon shipping routes!
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Where's My Package? - Urban Omnibus
Amazon’s logistical network is as extensive as it is abstruse. To get a sense of its scale, we reconstruct the regional distribution system, one order at a time.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2025
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes” ed by Fanny Gribenski, David Pantalony and Viktoria Tkaczyk is out! - academic.oup.com/book/61568 This collection “explores the complex & hidden provenance of ‘raw materials’ that underpin the musical cultures of modernity.“
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Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes
Abstract. Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The vo
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows:

How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world.

_Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Pleasantly surprised to see that my chapter, “Paper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable Fibers,” for Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes (OUP) is already online: academic.oup.com/book/61568/c... It is a history of paper’s many (attempted) uses as a sonic material.
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Paper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable Fibers
Abstract. Abstract:This chapter considers the history of paper as a sonic material. While paper is most recognizable as a material for visual communication
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Please apply if you want to join an amazing department and work with wonderful colleagues in NYC! Deadline Monday!
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/07/2025
supplystudies.com/research-gui... Didn't realize this was online--I worked on this research guide for supply chain investigations in 2023-24 with @mhockenberry.bsky.social, and I think we did some pretty good work with it!
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Hey everyone, I'm doing some more tenure packet work. If you (or someone you know) cite my work or use my stuff (Manifest, the Supply Studies Syllabus, etc.) in your research/classes/projects, let me know!
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 17/04/2025
Just Published, Early and Open Access: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Abstract here.
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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
News editors reflexively use photos of container ships to accompany articles on foreign trade. In reality, much more of America’s exports to the EU ($370 billion last year) travel by air than in seaborne containers. The same is true with U.S. exports to China.
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The EU will put tariff retaliation on hold for 90 days to match Trump's pause
The EU said it will put its retaliation measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days and leave room for a negotiated solution.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 02/04/2025
As we all know, NEH funding was already almost inexpressibly meager. It bears repeating that they’ve targeted NEH and IMLS exactly because they’ve been *incredibly* efficient at spurring new thought, writing, and community-building.
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is an incredible mapping project, from Amazon warehouses to Apple supply chains - well worth bookmarking and learning from! For methods too
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
As the NEH grant for Manifest, our digital humanities supply chain mapping platform, draws to a close, I wanted to thank the amazing people at the NEH that we've worked with on this project and take the opportunity to share some of the wonderful projects they've helped support.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend. buff.ly/HcoVX9x
A bald white man wearing black rectangular glasses leans against a wall. He is wearing a red linen button-down shirt. His arms are crossed and he is smiling mischieviously.Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.
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Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“In her contribution to the ‘Kin City’ series, Aretousa Bloom zooms in on the port of Piraeus and asks: How does logistics reorganize urban and maritime space? And what does this tell us about the connections between social and environmental struggles?” berlinergazette.de/at-the-water...
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At the Water’s Edge: Maritime Struggles, Logistical Urbanization, and the Fight for the Port of Piraeus · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
In the history of colonial-capitalist urbanization, ports play a key role as a form of territoriality that links the development of urban space with the commodification of maritime space, the creation...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
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TOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround
Theory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates
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