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Category Archives: logistics
Value in motion
“The more developed the capital, therefore, the more extensive the market over which it circulates, which forms the spatial orbit of its circulation, the more does it strive simultaneously for an even greater extension of the market and for greater … Continue reading
Posted in capital accumulation, logistics, political economy, transport
Tagged Grundrisse, Karl Marx
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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges…”
From Melville’s Billy Budd: …war contractors, whose gains, honest or otherwise, are in every land an anticipated portion of the harvest of death…. And he is the inventor of “fog of war” too: Forty years after a battle it is … Continue reading
Posted in literature, logistics, Melville, militaries, quotations, readings, ships, the sublime, war
Tagged Billy Budd, Contractors
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On the interweaving of fiction and reality
I hate to use the formally inventive and affectively brilliant Cities of Salt (by Abdulrahman Munif) as a sociological text or a total mirror of reality, which is what so many people do probably because until America’s Kingdom came along very few texts … Continue reading
The Gamming 