Pandemic adjustments and logistical power

Early pandemic supply chain disruptions posed unprecedented challenges for logisticians and logistical systems. This article investigates the loss prevention strategies pursued by supply chain operators in the face of these blockages. Focusing on the legal doctrine of force majeure, the redesign of supply chain models and financial risk management, I show how the adjustment of logistical rationalities to pandemic conditions involves their entanglement with legal, ecological and epidemiological logics. Far from being temporary modifications, these intersections register wider mutations of capitalism that both exceed the pandemic and have been hastened by it.