World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
By Shannon Mattern
31 pagesHow did a packaging company get into the publishing business — into the containment and distribution of information? How were geographic imaginations changed in the process?
An exploration of the history of paper as a container for both goods and advertising.
An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Transporting Images conference in 2023 and can watched on YouTube here.