A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
A seminar funded by the COST Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab with the support of Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and Horizon Europe INCA project. Rising at the crossroads between waged labour and self-employment, very often positioned in the labour law grey areas of the legislative systems of European countries, platform work is the subject of …
Our new artcile Circulating through the Pipeline. Algorithmic Subjectivities and Mobile Struggles is now plublished on Partecipazione e Conflitto Special Issue on Labour conflict, forms of organization and class edited by Maurizio Atzeni and Devi Sacchetto. We are living within a transformation that has been variously labelled as industrial revolution 4.0, platform economy, digital capitalism. …
It is the evening of November 13th 2017. A sudden and intense snowfall whitens the streets of Bologna. The city comes to a standstill, with only some sparse cyclists remaining, riding through the mud and the snowdrifts. They are riders, the couriers of the home-delivery applications operating in Bologna for a few months now. It …
In the current historical period, logistics has been elevated to the category of a key variable for understanding the political economy of territory, alongside others such as finance, advertising, consumption and information. In the face of the relentless pursuit of competitiveness and increased fluidity that characterizes economic globalization, logistics has transcended its military scope and …
There has been an increasing emphasis on the key role played by a series of old and new “global infrastructures”, whose construction is perceived to be at once too critical and too massive to be conceived, implemented, and run by a single state. Global infrastructures traverse national borders and contribute to the formation of new …
Gary Wilder discute il suo ultimo libro con Sandro Mezzadra (Università di Bologna) e Valentina Antoniol (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro). Appuntamento lunedì 29 maggio alle ore 16:00 presso la sala seminari (I° piano) del complesso di Santa Cristina (piazzetta Morandi 2, Bologna). In questo libro, Gary Wilder insiste sulla necessità di porre …