Container Principle
Container Principle A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.We live in a world organized around the container. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot…
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Container Principle
A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.We live in a world organized around the container. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms.
In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle of the A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China, offers a vivid representation of the increasing, world-is-flat globalization of the international economy.