Tilt the Scroll to Repair: Efficient Inhuman Workforce at Global Chains of Care

it is fundamental to challenge the GAFAM regime from a perspective of anticolonial and transfeminist intersectional analytics. The crisis of presence at the global chains of exploitation is already mundane: by user power wasted—­or washed away—­by a capitalist patriarchal-­colonial matrix of woven and wefted infrastructures; by an infrastructure of damage arranged around supply chain events such as the domesticated labor

production of microtaskers (or “Turkers”), the offshore labor production of hardware assemblers; by the shipping routes that routinely trace the colonial scheme; by the waste around smelters and refiners erasing life all around; by the care workforce that shoulders all this productive weight. In sum, by a convergence of powers entwined in the project of massive extraction, growth, and control.

To continue with the urge for a denser and more complex technopolitical imagination, those global chains of care need to be scrolled up and down, sideways, and underneath. Scroll the chains away from the userized nonlife flows hidden by Amazon. Scroll the chains through to show their damage. Scroll the chains along to tilt forces and erase GAFAM & Co.’s efficient machinery. Scroll off the chains, and partially repair them through other computational geometries of relation.

Our chapter, titled "Tilt the Scroll to Repair: Efficient Inhuman Workforce at Global Chains of Care" and co-written with artist-researcher Joana Moll, is finally out in the volume titled "Digital Work in the Planetary Market", edited by Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari and published by MIT Press (2022) under fully open conditions:

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5319/Digital-Work-in-the-Planetary-Market 

& accessible in different formats (pdf, html5, epub or order paper copies) right here --> https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/digital-work-planetary-market

Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a planetary scale. This book examines the implications for both work and workers when work is commodified and traded beyond local labor markets. Going beyond the usual “world is flat” globalization discourse, contributors look at both the transformation of work itself and the wider systems, networks, and processes that enable digital work in a planetary market, offering both empirical and theoretical perspectives.

The contributors—leading scholars and experts from a range of disciplines—touch on a variety of issues, including content moderation, autonomous vehicles, and voice assistants. They first look at the new experience of work, finding that, despite its planetary connections, labor remains geographically sticky and embedded in distinct contexts. They go on to consider how planetary networks of work can be mapped and problematized, discuss the productive multiplicity and interdisciplinarity of thinking about digital work and its networks, and, finally, imagine how planetary work could be regulated.

Contributors

Sana Ahmad, Payal Arora, Janine Berg, Antonio A. Casilli, Julie Chen, Christina Colclough, Fabian Ferrari, Mark Graham, Andreas Hackl, Matthew Hockenberry, Hannah Johnston, Martin Krzywdzinski, Johan Lindquist, Joana Moll, Brett Neilson, Usha Raman, Jara Rocha, Jathan Sadowski, Florian A. Schmidt, Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Nick Srnicek, James Steinhoff, Jara Rocha, JS Tan, Paola Tubaro, Moira Weigel, Lin Zhang

 

[reseña] La Mundoteca Caníbal

[Publicada en el número 8 de la revista Re-visiones, editada por Gelen Jeleton y Pablo Martínez. 
Número completo accesible acá -> 
http://www.re-visiones.net/index.php/RE-VISIONES/issue/view/11] 

[CAST: http://www.re-visiones.net/index.php/RE-VISIONES/article/view/283/538]

la mundoteca Caníbal es una infraestructura afirmativa y situada de conmutación de lectoescrituras, que lleva a cabo operaciones mundanas de logística textual a través de las que se invoca, se resuena y se provocan señalamientos y problematizaciones trans*feministas de los regímenes de producción de verdad, de distribución del conocimiento, de monocultivo de la escritura, de aplanamiento de los modos de experiencia, de gaseado de la presencia. Facilita un espacio-tiempo a las lectoescrituras presentes y latentes para la desposesión del canon traído en logísticas textuales impuestas por los afeites de la innovación totalitaria que planean asentarse en la ciudad dicen que a investigar las fake news. Fuck Off Google. Fuck Off Amazon. Fuck Off Facebook. En tiempos de alardeos post-verídicos y turcos mecánicos dirigidos por el conglomerado cultural de GAFAM, La Caníbal (con Otlet pero no como Otlet) entiende la biblioteconomía como una red compleja e interdependiente de relaciones y prototipa sencillamente condiciones semiótico-materiales de posibilidad para lo que nos pone, puso, pondrá o pondría en común aquí-ahora.

[ENG: http://www.re-visiones.net/index.php/RE-VISIONES/article/view/285/540]

I could tentatively say that La Caníbal mondothèque is an affirmative and situated infrastructure of commutation of read-write practices, that carries out mundane operations of text logistics through which it invokes, resonates and provokes trans*feminist signals and problematisations of the regimes of production of truth, distribution of knowledge, monoculture of writing, flattening of the modes of experience, gassing of presence. It facilitates a space-time to the present and latent read-write practices for the dispossession of the canon brought in text logistics imposed by the razors of totalitarian innovation that plan to settle in the city they say to investigate so-called fake news. Fuck Off Google. Fuck Off Amazon. Fuck Off Facebook. In times of post-veridic boasts and mechanical Turks directed by the cultural conglomerate of GAFAM, La Caníbal (with Otlet but not as Otlet) understands librarianship as a complex and interdependent network of relationships and simply prototypes semiotic-material conditions of possibility for what places, placed, will place or would place us in common here-now.

testeo de texteo del sur: una ficción política

primera aproximación a la posibilidad de estudiar de forma más detenida y compleja el sur como ficción política. La materia base para atender a su comportamiento es la del lenguajeo, ya sea en composición textualizada, oral o en código ejecutable:

The term “South” brings a not-only geographically located nor a strictly territorial problematic: it invokes an ontological, constitutive and transversal construct, a structural management of life. Better said: South is infrastructural, if we consider any apparatus (Agamben) to be infrastructural once it affects semiotic-material flows at a certain scale and under a certain regime of standardisation. 

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Politics magnetizes around the conditions of possibilities. A politics of the possible implies to understand that its very key objective is the transformation of desire by accessible means. Fictional works are powerful techniques to widen desire in the shape of “the possible”. Fictions jump over the given – “the probable” – as imaginations that are expanded, projected, constructed, diffracted and cared-about. Often they function as proposals, other times as ready-to-go scripts and usually as hands-on instructables. They offer worldviews that might operate as blueprints for the immediate. And they can be quite affordable, too. Taking and applying fiction for affecting the conditions of possibility as a plan risks to be understood as a mere “goodist” proposal, almost naïve or only tactical. Quite differently, political fictions are at the fundament of the shared world we build on a daily basis. The Modern Project is one of the most evident and sophisticated fictions: operating collectively, unfolding along all its variations of techno-scientific and socio-cultural components. Political fictions have a leading role at the composition and adaptation of the possible in terms of their all-scale, all-durabilities, all-tangibility gradients of materiality, subjectivities and collectivities.

Texto completo, elaborado en el marco del Phd Workshop "Machine Research" organizado por Aarhus University, Constant y Transmediale: https://machineresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/jara-rocha/