Technoprecarious / / Precarity Lab.

• VerfasserIn: Precarity Lab,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London, England : : Goldsmiths Press,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of 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.