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 …
Alle frontiere dell’Amazon-Capitalism
L’umanità sta costruendo nuove piramidi. Sospesa sulla contraddizione tra il continuo aumento della potenza produttiva e la verticalizzazione sempre più accentuata delle forme di potere e della ricchezza. La sindemia è stata un’occasione da parte capitalistica per ristrutturare le forme della produzione e della riproduzione sociale, della distribuzione e del consumo di merci. Sotto il …
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 …
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 …
On Platforming. Notes for Navigating Contemporary Hyper-Urbanscapes
Terraforming (literally, ‘Earth-shaping’) is a process of modifying a planetary surface to reconfigure its topography or ecology, affecting the entire biosphere. Forming is not (only) about shaping and configuring, but also producing and creating, or making something begin to exist. We are currently confronted with the hypothesis that Mars is the most likely candidate for terraforming. …