Technoprecarious
An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible la...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Goldsmiths Press
[2020]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009748235106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- A Note on Precarity
- The Precarity Effect: On the Digital Depletion Economy
- Language
- Who We Are
- Unpacking the Lab
- Thinking With
- The Undergig
- Operations of Capital and Experimentation
- The Entangling Undergig
- Techno Toxic
- Toxicity Every Step of the Process
- The Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
- The Widening Gyre of Precarity
- Automating Abandonment
- Automating the Sluggish Inefficiencies of Bureaucracy
- The Subject of Public Assistance from Eligible Recipient to Beneficiary
- Loan Forgiveness
- Medicaid
- Keeping People Alive in Order to Extract from Them
- Fantasies of Ability
- From Each Beyond their Abilities
- To Each According to their Precarity
- Able-Bodiedness is More Than a Condition
- Precarity is a Threat Against the Right to Live
- It Cannot Be Solved by the Right to Work
- After the Social Safety Net, We Must Create Social Safety Networks
- Dispossession by Surveillance
- The Affronted Class
- "Tech Bro" Feelings
- The Return to Craft
- Neo-Colonial Tech Tours and Apocalyptic Escape Plans
- The Promise of Self-Improvement
- Restoring the Depleted World
- Example 1: Detroit Digital Stewards Program
- Example 2: Palestine and Maps.me
- Covens of Care
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
