What does it mean to develop subversive knowledge for social transformation? It entails generating knowledge to support struggles. This isn’t about merely ‘understanding’ or ‘interpreting’ reality, but rather about creating knowledge that can be used as a tool to actively intervene in social conflicts and transformation processes. To develop such knowledge, the Into the Black …
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 …
Presentation of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle
Tuesday 20 April, 6pm (Italian Time)Into the Black Box in dialogue with Robert Ovetz and Raquel VarelaLive streaming at www.facebook.com/intotheblackbox.com Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle (Pluto Press 2020)Edited by Robert Ovetz Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union …
Riot Logistics
The recent uprisings in USA after the death of George Floyd lead us to move up the publication of this article by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Jaime Brenes Reyes and Michelle Liu that will be part of a forthcoming book on Capital Revolutions we are editing as Into the Black Box. We thank the authors for their contribution. …
[CfP] Criticizing disruption. Platformization and its discontent
More often than not, the disruptive character of Platform Capitalism is highlighted as a new paradigm of contemporary global capitalism. Urban spaces (considered in a broad sense) are pervaded by platform workers. We do think that, although inserted by new organization forms and labor control, platformization is anything but new and it rather incorporates and …
[ENG] Officina Primo Maggio – Manifesto
We publish the Manifesto of Officina Primo Maggio, a “partisan political-cultural project, consciously aimed at exploring the conditions that make conflict practicable, understood as the ability of those directly involved in the production processes” that will take the form of a magazine, inspired by the historical Primo Maggio. Everything was ready, the first issue packed, …