In recent years, geographers have evinced how infrastructure constitutes the bedrock of supply chain capitalism and its oppressions. This article interrogates how advanced automation – comprising robotics, artificial intelligence and software – is poised to politicize this infrastructural space further on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on COVID-19 developments, the article shows how logistics is turning to advanced automation to drive productivity outside labour, spur self-service consumption through digital technologies and contest labour’s future. As automated infrastructure threatens to take hold, a configuration of exchange that increasingly places labour, but not profits, outside of capital’s circulations will need to be challenged

近年来，地理学家已经证明了基础设施如何构成供应链资本主义及其压迫的基石。本文探讨了在 COVID-19 大流行之后，包括机器人技术、人工智能和软件在内的先进自动化如何进一步将这一基础设施空间政治化。文章回顾了 COVID-19 的发展，展示了物流如何转向先进的自动化，以提高劳动力以外的生产力，通过数字技术刺激自助服务消费并挑战劳动力的未来。随着自动化基础设施有可能占据上风，越来越多地将劳动力而非利润置于资本流通之外的交换配置将需要受到挑战