I Watched An 857-Hour Movie To Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/
The sheer weight of time that it took just to ship a pedometer from a factory to a store was crushing. The scale of human effort needed for such an effort is often reported in easily digestible and abstracted metrics such as person-hours or costs in dollars, but to watch it gnaws at the soul. Going on the Logistics journey means encountering a staggering depiction of alienation, isolation and just how much capitalist social relations have distorted our ability to understand time and space. In Grundrisse, an unfinished text eventually published in 1939, Karl Marx first developed the idea that capitalist social relations have a way of compressing time and space. New technologies driven by the profit motive hasten the pace of everyday life until everything, from our labour to our love, is nothing but a blur.
How MIT Visualizes Supply Chain Risk https://sourcemap.com/news/2015/9/15/how-mit-visualizes-supply-chain-risk
Bruce Arntzen of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics describes how he uses Sourcemap to create automatic visualizations of complex supply chains to help manufacturers avoid and plan for risk in the end-to-end supply chain. Video, 2015.