We reccomend you to read and download for free this interesting book edited by Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti and Maurilio Pirone on the impact of platform capitalism into urban spaces. The book is the final publication of the Horizon 2020 project PLUS. below you find the presentatio and the index of the volume. …
Circulating through the Pipeline. Algorithmic Subjectivities and Mobile Struggles
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. …
Bologna’s riders: ‘It’s not for us but for everyone!’
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 …
Beyond Fragmentation: Cross-Status Alliances in Tech
A seminar with Valentin Niebler (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and the participation of Marco Marrone (Università del Salento) and Davide Blotta (Università di Urbino). Wednesday 14th of June, 2023. Aula Ardigò, Palazzo Hercolani, Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna. During the recent economic and fiscal crises, tech companies have promised growth, circulation and exchange. Not surprisingly, the …
Data is a Relation, not a Property [ENG]
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 …
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 …