A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
A seminar funded by the COST Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab with the support of Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and Horizon Europe INCA project. Rising at the crossroads between waged labour and self-employment, very often positioned in the labour law grey areas of the legislative systems of European countries, platform work is the subject of …
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 …
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 …
Se non ve ne foste accorti, siamo oramai nell’era delle piattaforme. L’impatto dirompente di questi dispositivi si è consolidato in una presenza capillare all’interno delle relazioni sociali ed economiche delle nostre società. Ovunque, dall’Asia all’America Latina, dall’Africa all’Europa. Non è più possibile immaginare una giornata qualunque senza collegarsi a una app per comprare qualsivoglia servizio, …
A public lecture and a seminar by Into the Black Box for the Visual Culture Programme at Technische Universität of Vienna. Monday 7 November18:00 – 20:00 Public Programme: What urban future: Do high-tech metropolises dream of electric sheep?Niccolò Cuppini (Into the Black Box Collective and School of Applied Sciences and Arts of the Italian Switzerland) …
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 …