Our world is a logistical one. The plethora of players who devote their energies to transporting the goods consumed around the globe bears witness to this: the circulation of goods has become an essential driving force of globalized capitalism. The richest countries are studded with warehouses that take the place of abandoned factories, while the poorest countries are responsible for manufacturing and processing the goods that criss-cross the planet to be bought, consumed or discarded.

If it was the industrial and commercial world that gave logistical rationality its most accomplished form, today it extends to all our activities. From migration policies to cultural practices, from environmental conservation to human relations, there are hardly any areas of life that are not subject to flow management, that fundamental principle of stewardship.

It's high time to ask how the logistical realm governs our lives; to show how dramatic the consequences of its shortcomings are for living things; to recount the many struggles it faces. Above all, as this book sets out to do, we urgently need to invent other imaginaries of circulation and transport, other collective subjects for a world in which circulation is not a deadly instrument in the service of market value.

French

ISBN : 9782355221774