It’s impossible to overestimate how completely ubiquitous boxes are in our twenty-first century Western consumerist lives. Everything from takeout trays to online orders is sent and received while encased in a cubed corrugated exterior. Boxes are basically the stuff that encases other stuff as it moves from one place to another. Consequently, the cardboard box has become a symbol of stuff—how we acquire it, how we transport it, how we store it, how we discard it—and has been since its very invention.