TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klose,Alexander
TI  - The container principle: how a box changes the way we think 
T2  - Infrastructures series
SN  - 9780262028578
AV  - TA1215 .K5813 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Containerization
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Container ships
KW  - Unitized cargo systems
N1  - Translation of: Das Container-Prinzip : wie eine Box unser Denken verandert. Published: Hamburg : Mare Verlag, 2009; Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and index; Introduction : The accident --
Time capsules --
What is a container? --
Sea-land --
Container histories --
Logistics: the power of a third party --
Computing with containers --
Life in cells --
Container world
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Klose explores a series of "container situations" in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. He examines the container as a time capsule, sometimes breaking loose and washing up onshore to display an inventory of artifacts of our culture. He explains the "Matryoshka principle," explores the history of land-water transport, and charts the three phases of container history. He examines the rise of logistics, the containerization of computing in the form of modularization and standardization, the architecture of container-like housing, and a range of artistic projects inspired by containers. Containerization, spreading from physical storage to organizational metaphors, Klose argues, signals a change in the fundamental order of thinking and things
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