For over a decade, a series of contributions have made clear how research agendas centred on the critical study of logistics provide a useful lens to interpret transformations in our contemporary world. Logistics, broadly conceived as the art and science of managing the mobility of people and things to achieve particular objectives, has become central to the orchestration of contemporary capitalism (Neilson 2012). This is because expanding trade and production networks, and the radical reorganization of supply chains across the globe associated with them, has propelled logistics from a discrete and specialized military art to a ubiquitous science of circulation (Cowen 2014). Logistics, in this sense, can be more specifically understood as a calculative rationality and a suite of spatial practices aimed at the production of circulatory regimes and at their securitization (Chua et al 2018). A critical gaze on logistics exposes the violent worlds of circulation and their association with war making (Cowen 2014), colonization (Chua et al 2018) and the slave trade (Harney and Moten 2013), with labour regimes and their lived realities and routines (Khalili 2020). Although originally centred on the analysis of the operative dimension of supply-chain capitalism, the strength and validity of this critical gaze has been validated by a variety of research projects concerned with processes as diverse as humanitarianism (Ziadah 2019), food regimes (Henderson and Ziadah 2022), advanced automation systems (Lin 2022), consumption (Shapiro 2023) and gendered circuits of violence (True and Hozić 2020).