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Logistics of Probability: Anticipatory Shipping and the Production of Markets

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dc.contributor.editorBurkhardt, Marcus
dc.contributor.editorShnayien, Mary
dc.contributor.editorGrashöfer, Katja
dc.creatorPoechhacker, Nikolaus
dc.creatorNyckel, Eva-Maria
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T13:45:14Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T13:45:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractPredictive analytics is becoming increasingly important in various sectors of contemporary societies. At the same time logistical media have a profound impact on our everyday life. Both elements—the importance of logistical media and the growing impact of predictive analytics—are coming together in Amazon’s method of anticipatory shipping. By shipping packages based on the probability of an upcoming order, the logic of logistics is changed in a profound way. Based on the analysis of Amazon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,615,473 B2 (Spiegel et al. 2013), which describes the process of anticipatory shipping, we argue that this logistic of probability pre-assumes structures of desires and needs in the targeted community, while at the same time providing methods to realize these presumptions via the entanglement of anticipatory shipping with algorithmic logistical infrastructures and a second logic of prediction: the recommender system. Connecting these two forms of prediction via common centers of calculation (Latour 1987), these media logics become entangled by predicting as well as producing their customers’ demand at the same time and actively preparing the grounds for logistics of probability.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14854
dc.identifier.urihttps://explorations.meson.press/media/Poechhacker_Nyckel_Logistics_of_Probability.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15841
dc.languageeng
dc.publishermeson press
dc.publisher.placeLüneburg
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.14619/1716
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectdigitale Kulturde
dc.subjectLogistikde
dc.subjectÖkonomiede
dc.subjectWahrscheinlichkeitde
dc.subjectLogisticsen
dc.subjectCalculationen
dc.subjectProbabilityen
dc.subjectDigital Cultureen
dc.subject.ddcddc:004
dc.titleLogistics of Probability: Anticipatory Shipping and the Production of Marketsen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:08:37
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://explorations.meson.press/media/Poechhacker_Nyckel_Logistics_of_Probability.pdf
local.source.booktitleExplorations in Digital Cultures
local.source.epage19
local.source.spage1

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