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 la...

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.