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Mutations of the Container Principle: Containerization Stage Two

It is widely understood that containerization changed the world as we know it. The rapid development of container shipping across the latter half of the twentieth century transformed both distributions and imaginaries of space–time. In as such, it radically altered conceptions of the earth and human capabilities within it. Central to these shifts was a growing sense of humanity’s mastery over space–time. The intermodality of container shipping meant that sea and land could be seamlessly traversed as one fabric as containers were loaded on and off trains, trucks and ships. This unified movement conjured imaginaries of the planet as a ‘smooth space’ (Cresswell and Martin, 2012, p. 521) that could be faultlessly navigated by humans. The sea had once been figured, in maritime culture, as site of unknown mysteries and non-human forces. Containerization seemingly tamed these ominous and expansive oceans and mobilized them towards prerogatives of economic growth. What’s more, the standardized metal structures of containers also generated a ‘spectacle of efficiency’ (Martin, 2012, p. 154) which masked the messy multiplicity and incongruities of global capitalism that might have otherwise been evident in the sundries they carried. Science as Culture, 2016 Vol. 25, No. 4, 588–593, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1182971