[…] This semester I was fortunate to be included in the program for the “First International Conference on the Links between USA and Spain”, which was held at the University of Alcala, Spain. I presented the paper […]
Buy a plane ticket with cash? You must be a terrorist!
I love the idea of the creditonormative. I hear it as being the next iteration of D&G’s idea of the “axiomatic.”
[…] Asserts that participation in the credit system of finance is the norm and is therefore the only and… This orientation is then used to legitimate participation in a range of otherwise exclusionary […]
[…] Big Data, LIke Soylent Green is Made of People by Karen Gregory. A thoughtful essay here on automation, algorithmic living, and the change in value of human experience. […]
[…] that requires workers to appear as though they love their job. All of these terms are related to digital labor in the sense that they are immaterial, and, taken together, they convey the many challenges that […]
This was wonderful and an invigorating discussions of the radical potential of care. Thanks for that. I just wanted to add a thought about something that came up in a conversation I had on Twitter with Karen about […]
I should have added that a number of my students and I have been studying the work of Randy Martin on Derivatives. And as measure, as social logic, the derivative demands that we rethink contagion. I am […]
Fascinating to see how ‘contract’ can help deal with so many issues that the term labor stirs up. Am now happily thinking through the contract that one enters into when wearing technology to enhance and optimize […]
[…] Bogost writes, “hyperemployment offers a subtly different way to characterize all the tiny effort we contribute to Facebook and Instagram and the like. It’s not just that we’ve been duped into contributing […]
[…] do work anywhere, anytime without necessarily getting paid. A number of articles, more notably by Karen Gregory, Robin James, and Gordon Hull, have highlighted the feminised nature of hyperwork. They point to […]
[…] Karen Gregory at the Digital Labor Working Group blog responded to Bogost’s article in a post about digital labor, feminized labor, and use of the term “hyperemployment”: […]
[…] Hyperemployed or Feminized Labor? | CUNY Academic Commons and Femininity as Technology: Some Thoughts on Hyperemployment | The Society Pages: Two pieces reflecting on Ian Bogost’s Atlantic piece on […]
[…] has written a great wrap-up of our panel for the CUNY Academic Commons Digital Labor Group. His Panel Review briefly summarizes each speaker’s presentation. Thanks, […]
[…] MB genre, then, runs counter to the digital spaces that siphon “presence” as Andy describes. While of course wanting clicks and hits, these blogs resist, at least rhetorically, such economies […]