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14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Method
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2021
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
This text conducts a close reading of Amazon's 2013 patent for a "Method and System for Anticipatory Package Shipping" on three levels in order to investigate the patent's aspirations towards a potential hardwiring of temporality. First, through the lens of media theory, the patent is conceptualized as a medium for transporting knowledge over time itself. On a second level, the patent is framed as a logistical medium both due to its aspired effects in the logistical realm and its internal
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