Reposted by Matthew HockenberryMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026If 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. 907378129488
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026As 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. 010
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Always excited to see logistics memes in the wild! 020
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026From 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 151
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Announcing 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 2026dhdebates.gc.cuny.eduCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital HumanitiesThis 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... 16930
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 08/02/2026urbanomnibus.net/2026/02/wher... This is a very cool project reverse engineering Amazon shipping routes!urbanomnibus.netWhere's My Package? - Urban OmnibusAmazon’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. 13810
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2025NEW: 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.projects.propublica.orgWhere Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublicaThe 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. 6835291792
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.“academic.oup.comUnsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern SoundscapesAbstract. Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The vo 000
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025U 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 15426
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Pleasantly 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.academic.oup.comPaper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable FibersAbstract. Abstract:This chapter considers the history of paper as a sonic material. While paper is most recognizable as a material for visual communication 110
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Please apply if you want to join an amazing department and work with wonderful colleagues in NYC! Deadline Monday! 000
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/07/2025supplystudies.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! 162
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Hey 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! 010
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryRanjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 17/04/2025Just 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. 2163
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryJock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025News 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.latimes.comThe EU will put tariff retaliation on hold for 90 days to match Trump's pauseThe 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. 011
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 02/04/2025As 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. 3265124
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryMarc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is an incredible mapping project, from Amazon warehouses to Apple supply chains - well worth bookmarking and learning from! For methods too 042
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025As 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. 3122
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend. buff.ly/HcoVX9x 19528
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...berlinergazette.deAt the Water’s Edge: Maritime Struggles, Logistical Urbanization, and the Fight for the Port of Piraeus · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DEIn 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... 030
Reposted by Matthew HockenberryMarc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Incredibly 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...networkcultures.orgTOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundTheory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates 79941