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The container principle : how a box changes the way we think / by Alexander Klose ; translated by Charles Marcrum II.
Language: English Original language: German Series: Infrastructures seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Description: xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262028578
- 0262028573
- Container-Prinzip. English
- TA1215 .K5813 2015
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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.
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | TA 1215 .K5813 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5161834 |
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.
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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