Technoprecarious / Precarity Lab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Precarity Lab, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Goldsmiths Press, [2020]

Summary:

An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible labor or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users--have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

A Note on Precarity

The Precarity Effect: On the Digital Depletion Economy

Language

Who We Are

Unpacking the Lab

Thinking With

The Undergig

Operations of Capital and Experimentation

The Entangling Undergig

Techno Toxic

Toxicity Every Step of the Process

The Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation

The Widening Gyre of Precarity

Automating Abandonment

Automating the Sluggish Inefficiencies of Bureaucracy

The Subject of Public Assistance from Eligible Recipient to Beneficiary

Loan Forgiveness

Medicaid

Keeping People Alive in Order to Extract from Them

Fantasies of Ability

From Each Beyond their Abilities

To Each According to their Precarity

Able-Bodiedness is More Than a Condition

Precarity is a Threat Against the Right to Live

It Cannot Be Solved by the Right to Work

After the Social Safety Net, We Must Create Social Safety Networks

Dispossession by Surveillance

The Affronted Class

"Tech Bro" Feelings

The Return to Craft

Neo-Colonial Tech Tours and Apocalyptic Escape Plans

The Promise of Self-Improvement

Restoring the Depleted World

Example 1: Detroit Digital Stewards Program

Example 2: Palestine and Maps.me

Covens of Care

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-912685-72-8

9781912685721

1912685728