The Platform Austria Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 comes to Bologna with an exhibition, talks and workshops.Here the Italian version of the article. From 5 May to 14 June 2023 @Officina DumboFrom Monday to Friday, 10am-7pm Over the past decade, digital platforms have gone from being unknown to most to becoming crucial infrastructures …
[CfP] Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World
A collaborative workshop organized by: The Institute of Contemporary History at Nova University, Lisbon and the University of Bologna The concept of “infrastructure” has become so central to contemporary societies that it has become increasingly difficult to specify what the term refers to. Rosalind Williams has described infrastructure as a “highly promiscuous concept” that, since …
La Forma Stato. A Tribute to Toni Negri
Quello bolognese è il primo di una serie di seminari, che si terranno in diverse città europee e degli Stati Uniti, per festeggiare il compleanno di Toni Negri. È un compleanno “tondo”, importante, che segna il suo ingresso nella piena maturità. Intendiamo celebrare, con l’occasione, lo straordinario percorso di ricerca di Negri, cominciato alla fine …
Ecologies of Labour: Rethinking Capital Accumulation and Circulant Subjectivities in a Platform Society
The seminar will delve into the complex subjectivities that characterize global chains of production and circulation in the Anthropocene, opening up a conversation between traditional labour studies and new perspectives emerging from fields such as political ecology and environmental history. What ecological relationships are cultivated – with the self, with other humans, and with other …
Italian Logistics: The past, present and the future
Vi segnaliamo questo evento a cui parteciperemo dell’International Labour and Logistics Research Network dal titolo “Italian Logistics: The past, present and the future”. Il seminario si terrà il 7 marzo e sarà fruibile online, cliccare qua per tutte le info e per partecipare. Dr. Andrea Bottalico, Assistant Professor (fixed-term) in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies …
Platform Communism: a manifesto for struggling within and against platform capitalism
In case you hadn’t noticed, we are now in the platform age. The initial explosive impact of platforms has now embedded itself within the social and economic relations of our societies. From Asia to Latin America, from Africa to Europe, it is no longer possible to imagine a day passing without using some app to …