A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
We are pleased to announce that Into the Black Box will take part to next Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theories that will take place from June 21st to July 2nd, 2021. This year the topic of the school is the political imagination after Covid-19. We will contribute with a workshop and a …
Logistical time tests the capacities of Amazon workers. Through the calculation of body agilities in elemental tasks, algorithm stocks data about bio forces, bio-attitudes of its workers. Time is scheduled in a maximum of eight hours per day, but during working hours, its definition among breaks and rests becomes obscure and opaque. Velocity is paradigm …
The recent uprisings in USA after the death of George Floyd lead us to move up the publication of this article by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Jaime Brenes Reyes and Michelle Liu that will be part of a forthcoming book on Capital Revolutions we are editing as Into the Black Box. We thank the authors for their contribution. …
Pubblichiamo oggi l’ebook “Struggle in a Pandemic”, prodotto da una rete transnazionale in costruzione chiamata Workers Inquiry Network. Lo scorso anno, assieme a una serie di realtà di ricerca e intervento sociale, abbiamo iniziato a tessere uno scambio di riflessioni e testi a partire da esperienze di inchiesta nel mondo del lavoro e dei conflitti. …
Il capitalismo ha accelerato la trasmissione delle malattie. Storicamente, la maggior parte delle epidemie si è diffusa geograficamente attraverso due forme comuni di movimento umano a lunga distanza: il commercio e la guerra. I tempi, tuttavia, sono cambiati drasticamente con l’ascesa del capitalismo. Nel Medioevo ci volle una decina di anni perché la peste nera …
In Italy’s ‘war on corona’ authoritarianism as well as labor struggles are exploding. The latter brings to the fore the question of what and who is of systemic relevance, and hence “esstential” for overcoming the crisis and rebuilding the world afterward. Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki discuss this key issue of the SILENT WORKS project …