Global container infrastructure is so standardized that specific ports become indistinguishable doppelgängers

Evidence

What made it all the more uncanny was the fact that Petit never mentions that he is in Felixstowe; the hangars and looming cranes are so generic that I began to wonder if this might not be a doppelgänger container port somewhere else in the world. All of this somehow underlined the way Petit’s text describes these ‘blind buildings’ while his camera tracks along them: ‘non-places’, ‘prosaic sheds’, ‘the first buildings of a new age’ which render ‘architecture redundant’. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 496

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Marc Augé’s ‘non-places’ concept and to reading about globalized logistics infrastructure elsewhere in the reader’s shelf.
• STORYSTEM: A doppelgänger container port that can’t be told apart from another location is a ready-made uncanny setting for fiction about globalized placelessness.