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 …
Do Platforms have Politics? – On Platforms as Infrastructures
‘Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things.’ The capitalist relation is built upon ‘things’,[1] which are either natural or artificial. From this assertion, it seems crucial to delve into the politics of ‘things’. Do they have politics? In the proceeding paragraphs, I will try to show …
Platform Austria
Into the Black Box collaborated togheter with other several expert on platform urbanism to the exhibition of Austrian Pavillion at 17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. The curators Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer focused on platform urbanism, its consequences on our lives and the resistances this phenomenon produced. All the materials are accessible on the …
Call 4 Artists! Platform Urbanism (ITA/ENG)
Il 25 giugno Into the Black Box organizza un’esposizione presso DUMBO a Bologna all’interno della summer school “Political Imagination after COVID: Life, Race, Technology, Abolition” promossa dalla Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. Presenteremo i lavori esito della precedente call Mapping Amazon organizzata in occasione di Silent Works. The Hidden Labour in AI-Capitalism, un’esposizione …
Imagining and practicing the post-pandemic urbanity [IBB workshop]
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 …
Digital Platforms and Public Policies
Webinar on “Digital Platforms and Public Policies”, 16th Dec. in wich Prof. Sandro Mezzadra (Università di Bologna) talked with Prof. Ursula Huws and Prof. Guy Standing , who presented their latest books. Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire) presented her book “Reinventing the Welfare State. Digital Platforms and Public Policies” and Guy Standing (School of Oriental …