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February 2, 2026Modern Drama0 citations

Michael Shane Boyle. The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production and Supply Chain Capitalism

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DEDouglas Eacho

Key Points

  • Explore the relationship between art and logistics, focusing on their interconnectedness in historical and ideological contexts.
  • Analyzed historical examples of art forms and their relationship to logistics
  • Reviewed postwar art and performance literature
  • Examined material support provided by art to logistical processes
  • Identified a direct influence of artistic production on the logistical revolution
  • Demonstrated how various art forms have supported supply chain capitalism
  • Found ideological implications of art embedded within logistical practices

Abstract

Michael Shane Boyle’s The Arts of Logistics provides a major contribution to critical scholarship on logistics, and on postwar art and performance, by considering how the latter has been embedded in the former. Whether deploying barrels, containers, or drones, art has offered material and ideological support to the logistical revolution.

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Douglas Eacho (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980fe13c1c9540dea80fcadhttps://doi.org/10.3138/md-68-4-br02
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