Media archaeology with Rand McNally’s Trucker Tools (2001)

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One of the threads I’m trying to work into this dissertation has been the specific role of geospatial softwares in the “ logistics revolution”—the period in the 1960s and into the 1970s where logistics as a practice and field of study is popularized and standardized through new quantitative methods, the standardization of the shipping container, and deregulation of industries core to logistics. It…

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