The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way We Think
We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China, offers a vivid representation of the increasing, world-is-flat globalization of the international economy. In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle of the container…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: II, Charles Marcrum (Harvard University) (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-02857-8
- EAN: 9780262028578
- Produktnummer: 17322693
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.7 cm x D3.0 cm 552 g
- Abbildungen: 96 b 192 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 552
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Alexander Klose is a researcher and curator in the program department of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
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