Online Presentation of “Platformization and Its Discontents” (Volume 120, Issue 4 of South Atlantic Quarterly edited by Into the Black Box) with the editors and some contributors. Platformization is a global phenomenon that emerged in the last decade.Since the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007/08 platformization gradually pervaded our life imposing itself simultaneously with …
Gendering Logistics. Feminist approaches for the Analysis of Supply-Chain Capitalism
Third volume of the series I Quaderni di Into the Black Box.It is possible to read and download the full text here.Below the index and the introduction. INTRODUCTION: READING LOGISTICAL OPERATIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF GENDEREvelina Gambino, Irene Peano, Into the Black Box GENDERING LOGISTICS: SUBJECTIVITIES, BIOPOLITICS AND EXTRACTION IN SUPPLY CHAINSIrene Peano RACIALIZED MASCULINITIES …
Labour and Technology in Capitalism 4.0
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 …
Platform urbanism and its discontents [Exhibit + Roundtable]
One day event organized by Into the Black Box and the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory with the support of Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana and Fondazione Gramsci. — Program 5:00 PM Exhibition Opening 5:30 PM Roundatble “Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents” 10:00 PM Exhibition Closing — Exhibition “Into the Black Boxes of Platform …
Black Box East: Infrastructures to Other Worlds
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 …
Platform Urbanisation as a Battlefield
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 …