The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logisticsthe techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials bodies and informationhas substantially impacted the production distribution and consumption of media. At the same time physical media such as paperwork along with media technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation distribution and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the specific points of dependence and friction between media and logistics Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics are coconstitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from the other.ContributorsEbony Coletu Kay Dickinson Stefano Harney Matthew Hockenberry TungHui Hu Shannon Mattern Fred Moten Michael Palm Ned Rossiter Nicole Starosielski Liam Cole Young Susan Ziegerampnbsp