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The Invisualities of Capture in Amazon’s Logistical Operations

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dc.creatorBeverungen, Armin
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T11:39:02Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T11:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the status of visuality in surveillance capital- ism by considering its role in the management of Amazon’s logisti- cal operations. Whereas Amazon is often portrayed as being at the forefront of developments in surveillance associated with face recog- nition technologies, a focus on its logistical operations highlights the more mundane role of the barcode scan. The barcode is considered a calm image, central to the operation of capture in the warehouse and beyond. Logistics is here marked by invisualities, wherein visuality is operationalised to optimise logistical flows of data, things and people, rather than geared towards visual forms of surveillance. These invi- sualities mean that power is exercised primarily through the scan as capture, with power characterised as operational and environmental. Recent developments in logistics towards augmented video surveillance and its associated networked images must also be assessed in the context of this mode of power and its economy.en
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2021-070209
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21876
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2021-070209/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23222
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectLogisticsen
dc.subjectBarcodeen
dc.subjectAmazonen
dc.subjectOperational Imagesen
dc.subjectEnvironmentalityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleThe Invisualities of Capture in Amazon’s Logistical Operationsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-03-02T02:33:59
local.source.epage202
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNetworked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
local.source.spage185
local.source.volume7

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