Matthew Hockenberry is a media historian and theorist who examines the media of global production. He is the editor of Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (Duke University Press, 2021) and his current project develops a media history of logistics, tracing how media forms shaped the emergence of logistical production and distribution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is particularly concerned with transitional moments in the histories of paperwork, telecommunication and computation. As a visiting scientist at the MIT Center for Civic Media he developed the first (of many) platforms for mapping global supply chains, and he writes regularly on the state of global supply through the lens of its most emblematic objects.