Where Tomorrow Arrives Today: Infrastructure as Processional Space

Yesterday's processional routes are in centres of human civilisation such as Rome. Today's are in environments that not only have no need for human presence, but require human absence in order to function. Yet the life of our great cities depends on such places. American writer Geoff Manaugh reports on his visit to a major marine transportation facility in Bayonne, New Jersey, where constantly shifting 'walls' of shipping containers are moved about by an algorithmically controlled mechanical system, with humans intervening only remotely and for mere seconds at a time.