Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, Vassilis Tsianos: Escape Routes. Control and Subversion in the Twenty-first Century (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · control society, european union, everyday, labour, life, migration, mobility, neoliberalism, precariat, subversion
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.
Publisher Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 0745327788, 9780745327785
300 pages
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Comment (0)SubStance journal 112: Italian Post-Workerist Thought (2007)
Filed under journal | Tags: · capitalism, economy, labour, marxism, philosophy, politics, precariat
SubStance is an interdisciplinary journal for discourses converging upon literature from a variety of fields, including philosophy, the social science, science, and the arts.
Issue 112 (Volume 36, Number 1), 2007
Special Issue: Italian Post-Workerist Thought
Edited by: Max Henninger, Giuseppina Mecchia, and Timothy S. Murphy
Rosalind Gill: Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web (2007)
Filed under report | Tags: · creative industries, cultural production, culture industry, precariat
Accounts of new media working conditions draw heavily on two polarised stereotypes, veering from techno-utopianism on the one hand, to a vision of webworkers as the new ‘precariat’, victims of neo-liberal economic policies on the other. Heralded from both perspectives as representing the brave new world of work, what is striking is the absence of research on new media workers’ own experiences, particularly in a European context. This INC commissioned research goes beyond contemporary myths to explore how people working in the field experience the pleasures, pressures and challenges of working on the web. Illustrated throughout with quotations from interviews, it examines the different career paths emerging for content-producers in web-based industries, questions the relevance of existing education and training, and highlights the different ways in which people manage and negotiate freelancing, job insecurity, and keeping up to date in a fast-moving field where both software and expectations change rapidly.
The research is based on 35 interviews carried out in Amsterdam in 2005, and contextually draws upon a further 60 interviews with web designers in London and Brighton. The interviews were conducted by Danielle van Diemen and Rosalind Gill.
Interviews: Rosalind Gill and Danielle van Diemen. Copy editing: Ned Rossiter. Design: Léon&Loes, Rotterdam. Network Notebooks editors: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Printing: Cito Repro, Amsterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Network Notebooks 01, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-02-5.
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