The introductory essay The Architecture of Logistics: Trajectories Across the Dismembered Body of the Metropolis develops a penetrating critique of contemporary neoliberalism by interpreting logistics not merely as a technical system of transportation and distribution, but as the dominant infrastructural logic through which contemporary capitalism organises territories, regulates populations and accelerates planetary circulation. Negar Sanaan Bensi and Francesco Marullo conceptualise logistics as the “nervous and circulatory system” of neoliberal modernity, a global apparatus composed of ports, containers, warehouses, communication hubs, freight corridors and algorithmic management systems that collectively transform the earth into a frictionless operational surface for exchange. Drawing from the etymological origins of the Greek logizomai—to calculate, organise and rationalise—the essay traces logistics from its nineteenth-century military formulations in Jomini and Clausewitz to its contemporary role as a technology of governance extending across trade, labour and urbanisation. Particularly significant is the argument that logistical infrastructures simultaneously materialise and conceal power relations: while appearing as neutral systems of efficiency, they impose standardised temporalities, weaken local labour structures and produce highly asymmetrical forms of territorial integration. The text demonstrates how containerisation, automation and digital optimisation have reshaped harbours, warehouses and metropolitan regions into spaces governed increasingly by algorithmic coordination and invisible computational orders. Yet the essay resists simplistic technological determinism by foregrounding the profound contradictions internal to logistical capitalism. Logistics generates not only fluidity and circulation, but also confinement, detention, labour exploitation and geopolitical segregation, as evidenced in migrant detention architectures, outsourced labour systems and sprawling peri-urban industrial landscapes. Particularly illuminating is the notion that the architecture of logistics constitutes an “architecture without humans”, despite relying fundamentally upon precarious labour and embodied exhaustion to sustain accelerated global circulation. Consequently, the authors position logistics as the central spatial paradigm of the twenty-first century: an infrastructural regime through which finance, mobility, territorial control and everyday life become inseparably intertwined. Ultimately, the essay argues that architecture must critically confront these logistical systems not simply as technical artefacts, but as political and ecological mechanisms shaping the contemporary metropolis and redefining the material conditions of global coexistence itself.