A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things.’ The capitalist relation is built upon ‘things’,[1] which are either natural or artificial. From this assertion, it seems crucial to delve into the politics of ‘things’. Do they have politics? In the proceeding paragraphs, I will try to show …
Le malattie infettive emergenti hanno molto a che fare con il come e il dove viviamo. Il coronavirus in corso è un esempio delle strette relazioni tra lo sviluppo urbano e le malattie infettive nuove o ricorrenti. Come la pandemia di SARS del 2003, i collegamenti tra l’urbanizzazione accelerata, i mezzi di trasporto più ampi …