A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this presentation we will explore the connections between AI and the urban by focusing on the concept of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonomous vehicles, urban robots, city brains and urban software agents. We will then see how the …
Urban Automation is an ongoing process, a field defined by multiple tensions, an umbrella term for different and complex trends: the processes of urban digitalization (smart cities, platform urbanization, AI urbanism, etc.), the urban implications of the industrial revolution 4.0, the changing shape of everyday urban onlife, the cyborgization of labour, and so forth. These …
We reccomend you to read and download for free this interesting book edited by Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti and Maurilio Pirone on the impact of platform capitalism into urban spaces. The book is the final publication of the Horizon 2020 project PLUS. below you find the presentatio and the index of the volume. …
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 …
Después del taller organizado este verano en la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, decidimos seguir nuestra conversación colectiva entre Europa y América Latina para construir una perspectiva crítica sobre los espacios urbanos.Participen en el dossier temático editado por Bajo el volcán. Revista del Posgrado de Sociología (BUAP) Convocatoria para participar en el dossier temático: “Experimentar …
Into the Black Box (Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces and Labor) and The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, in collaboration with the Seminar on Borders, Migrations and Subjectivities in Contemporary Capitalism of the ICSyH-AVP at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, call for the Workshop “Experiencing the City: Critical Theories and Visual Methods”, …