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Bottlenecks, Choke Points, and Supply Chains | Red May 2020

I’ll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” says Puck. It may have taken longer to fashion a series of existing trade routes into a global logistics chain, but since the invention of the container changed the rules of the game in 1956, the rate of flow of capital and human beings has increased exponentially and the physiognomy of land and sea has undergone an astonishing transformation. Capital threads its way through an intricate maze of free ports, special processing zones, arbitration tribunals, warehouses that are both ‘in’ and ‘not in’ sovereign nations, reserve armies of racialized labor on contracts renewable daily, arriving just in time to begin its circuit again. In the age of coal, when workers were concentrated together in large factories, a strike at the point of production brought economic life to a halt. Not now, when container ships headed to a port of striking workers can easily be redirected somewhere else along the chain. And yet, with stunning suddenness, the wheels of commerce have ground to a halt. A mere virus has laid bare the costs of arbitrage. Suddenly, says Annie McClanahan, we wonder “why virus testing kits are stuck in warehouses rather than converging “from the ends of the earth” and going where they are needed most… why all the demand in the world can’t magically coordinate a supply of face masks.” And striking workers all along the supply chain are refusing to risk death at contagious workplaces just so that Capital can resume its endless circuit. What now? Will Capital be able to reconstruct its global itinerary as if nothing happened? Will shortages down the road plus intensified popular resistance bring the logistical machine to a halt once again? Let’s map out possible scenarios. Charmaine Chua, Dara Orenstein, Deborah Cowen, Laleh Khalili, Nantina Vgontzas, Sandro Mezzadra, and Spencer Cox Support Red May Patreon:   / redmayseattle   GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/red-may-2020... Subscribe to Channel:    / redmaytv   Facebook:   / redmayseattle   Twitter: https://twitter.com/redmayseattle?lan... Website: https://www.redmayseattle.com About Red May: Red May is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington. We gather in bookstores, movie theaters, bars, parks, cafes, alleys, and auditoriums to share in discussion and plot ways forward toward a world in common: a world beyond capitalism. While we will continue our annual collective hurdle over the wire of our capitalist horizon, now you can join us throughout the other 11 months of the year. Subscribe to our channel, view our archives, including The Social Movements Lab with Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra, and other upcoming programs. Listen to our new podcast Cinder Bloc. featuring interviews, discussions, and stories about the world-making and world-breaking potential of life in late capitalism. We've done all this so far through volunteer effort, donations, throwing everything on a credit card, and hoping for the best. But times change. Pandemics beat the hell out of you. And now we hope you'll join us to keep Red May moving forward into the future.