Matthew Hockenberry

Where's My Package? - Urban Omnibus Amazon’s logistical network is as extensive as it is abstruse. To get a sense of its scale, we reconstruct the regional distribution system, one order at a time.

urbanomnibus.net/2026/02/wher... This is a very cool project reverse engineering Amazon shipping routes!

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

“Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes” ed by Fanny Gribenski, David Pantalony and Viktoria Tkaczyk is out! -

academic.oup.com/book/61568

This collection “explores the complex & hidden provenance of ‘raw materials’ that underpin the musical cultures of modernity.“

Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows: How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world. _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Paper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable Fibers Abstract. Abstract:This chapter considers the history of paper as a sonic material. While paper is most recognizable as a material for visual communication

Pleasantly surprised to see that my chapter, “Paper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable Fibers,” for Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes (OUP) is already online: academic.oup.com/book/61568/c...

It is a history of paper’s many (attempted) uses as a sonic material.

Please apply if you want to join an amazing department and work with wonderful colleagues in NYC! Deadline Monday!

supplystudies.com/research-gui... Didn't realize this was online--I worked on this research guide for supply chain investigations in 2023-24 with @mhockenberry.bsky.social, and I think we did some pretty good work with it!

Hey everyone, I'm doing some more tenure packet work. If you (or someone you know) cite my work or use my stuff (Manifest, the Supply Studies Syllabus, etc.) in your research/classes/projects, let me know!

Just Published, Early and Open Access: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Abstract here.

The EU will put tariff retaliation on hold for 90 days to match Trump's pause The EU said it will put its retaliation measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days and leave room for a negotiated solution.

News editors reflexively use photos of container ships to accompany articles on foreign trade. In reality, much more of America’s exports to the EU ($370 billion last year) travel by air than in seaborne containers. The same is true with U.S. exports to China.

As we all know, NEH funding was already almost inexpressibly meager. It bears repeating that they’ve targeted NEH and IMLS exactly because they’ve been *incredibly* efficient at spurring new thought, writing, and community-building.

Yikes! Let’s not think about how long it’s been / how old we are getting!

This is an incredible mapping project, from Amazon warehouses to Apple supply chains - well worth bookmarking and learning from! For methods too

Thanks Marc!

Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: Manifest showing unmanufactured tobacco leaf exports from Malawi, Africa, with a focus on the top five countries that receive leaf exports from Malawi.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest that maps reviews of Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious." Throughout the Anglophone world, only one review of "Notorious" even mentioned uranium… except in the jurisdiction with the world's largest uranium reserves--Australia.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest that maps the sites enrolled by a sustainable fashion influencer, from South Asia to LA.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest that examines the Global Media Visual Effects industry by mapping the global pipelines of VFX in Europe, Americas and Asia--revealing a post-production process that is highly taylorized and outsourced all over the world.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest of the open and closed technologies used in CatSniffer, an original multiprotocol and multiband board for sniffing, communicating, and attacking IoT devices using the latest radio IoT protocols.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest exploring Viet Nam's Secondhand Clothing Trade. Beginning in the early 1980s, used clothing entered Viet Nam in the form of international humanitarian assistance, becoming an important commodity in Viet Nam’s informal markets.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A listing of Home Depot Distribution Centers in the US, with over 200 individual sites recorded.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: Manifest examining facilities funded (proposed, pledged, etc.) under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, an initiative to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: A Manifest of Automotive Repair Firms in the state of California, with over 2300 individual sites recorded.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: This is a reconstruction of the supply chain for the Western Electric produced telephones of the late 1920s, drawn largely from archival Western Electric/AT&T materials but also incorporating records of some supplier companies.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: Hard disk drives have been supplanted in many use-cases by solid-state drives. This shows the state of hard disk drive production in Thailand around the time of the 2011 floods--an event which helped speed this transition.
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Manifest Roundup: Scanning Labor in the Internet Archive is a data enabled spatial-labor history of the book scanning workers who create the world's largest free digital library, Internet Archive, visualizing 9 million records from 2004 to 2023.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: This Supplier Manifest presents a timeline of Apple suppliers for the years 2013-2019, as documented by their annual supplier responsibility progress reports. The result is over 1800 possible companies and sites.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: Amazon is everywhere. This Manifest records nearly 2500 sites of its infrastructure and facilities, including fulfillment centers, sortation centers, delivery centers and Amazon Fresh, Amazon Pantry, and Wholefoods locations.
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Manifest: Supply Chain Platform Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade netw...

Manifest Roundup: While Apple is now associated with production in China, the company has a long and complicated history in manufacture. This Manifest records Apple's factory locations and major office facilities, as well as those of NeXT and Foxconn.
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