We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China我们生活在一个以集装箱为中心的世界里。标准化的20英尺和40英尺的集装箱运输物资跨越海洋和陆地；提供庇护所、办公空间和存储空间；启发电影、小说、隐喻和范例。今天，标准箱（20英尺当量单位，海运集装箱的官方计量单位）已经成为一种全球货币。集装箱船一种集装箱船，悬挂一国国旗航行，但由总部设在另一国的公司所有，运载日本的汽车零件、越南的冷冻鱼和中国的橡皮鸭