Presentation of “Platformization and Its Discontents”

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 …

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 …

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. …