ABSTRACT
Global logistics is a burgeoning yet opaque field of techno political intervention. It sustains a world in motion. It is the means to engineer, ensure and manage global commodity circulation. As commodities and cargo are put into circulation, their global ubiquity, mobility and 'orderability' are often regarded as the 'economic normal' of the current century. The formation of private cargo networks and corridors, we argue, relates to a new rationale of organising and producing global connections. Logistics firms can be seen as co-manufacturers of new zones of circulation. The chapter argues that these recent developments are paradigmatic of a shift in the conduct of geopolitical power which meanders between the frictional ambition for territorial security and geo-economics openness. It materialises in a luminal space we call the new zones of circulation. We conclude by turning to logistics as a political technology of manufacturing and governing those new zones of circulation.
