On "Amazonia"

Beebe, Roger

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Title

On "Amazonia"

Author(s)

Beebe, Roger

Issue Date

2020-03

Keyword(s)

• film
• labor
• Amazon.com

Abstract

This essay grows out of Amazonia, a 2019 short “desktop cinema” essay film about the cities where Amazon.com had their four original distribution centers. The film uses those cities as a way of thinking about how the virtual economy is transforming real space. Using the film as a starting point, the essay focuses on the specific forms of labor necessitated by e-commerce, exploring most specifically the labor of the “warehouse associates” who perform the manual labor necessary to produce the apparent magic of online purchases. The essay ends with a consideration of the persistence of older forms of physical labor despite the push to automate some parts of these jobs.

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 16, issue 1

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112907

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v16i1.223

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2020 Roger Beebe
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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