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Shipping Container

By Craig Martin, Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
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By Craig Martin, Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thi...

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LiteratureBusinessLiterary CriticismIndustriesLiterary TheoryTransportation IndustriesLiterary Theory - General & MiscellaneousTransportation Industries - General & Miscellaneous