A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
An interview to Ursula Huws by Into the Black Box.Firts published open access on Soft Power Journal, Volume 8.1 in June 2021.From the rise of telehomwork of the Seventies to the burst of platform labour occurred after Pandemic: in this interview with Ursula Huws, we cover a fifty-year path of the impact of technologies on …
Recensione al volume Capitalismo4.0. Genealogia della rivoluzione digitale curato da Into the Black Box. Nella sua postfazione al volume, Sergio Bologna sottolinea giustamente come i processi di individualizzazione sembrano ormai darsi come del tutto naturali, in particolare tra quanti non svolgono lavori manuali, mentre il passaggio alla coalizione viene vissuto come una coercizione. Il volume …
Ci preme fare una premessa, che è anche l’unica “riserva” che nutriamo nei riguardi di questo bellissimo libro: gli argomenti trattati e lo stile con cui vengono affrontati richiedono delle solide conoscenze pregresse su temi economici e su “marxismo et similia”. Senza una base da cui partire, si rischia di trovare questa lettura ostica. Ciò …
In her book “Molecular Red” McKenzie Wark, puts forward a simple yet radical proposition: namely that in order to come to terms with, or perhaps in order continue to exist, within the current planetary predicament known as the Anthropocene, we must cease to create new horizons of revolutionary triumph and rather retrieve from the wreckage …
When the essay The Californian Ideology was published in 1995, the world of the internet was not exactly the same as it is now, but the authors Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron were already sure: behind the promise of free spaces to be conquered, there lay the neoliberal spirit with its ambition to open new markets for …
Terraforming (literally, ‘Earth-shaping’) is a process of modifying a planetary surface to reconfigure its topography or ecology, affecting the entire biosphere. Forming is not (only) about shaping and configuring, but also producing and creating, or making something begin to exist. We are currently confronted with the hypothesis that Mars is the most likely candidate for terraforming. …