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Thu · Dec 26 post · 3 min Happy people sell Woodcock, Jamie. 2015. A Worker’s Inquiry in a UK Call Centre : the Labour Process, Management, and Resistance. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis] Summary Claim: Worker Tue · Dec 17 post · 3 min Human motor in Marx Rabinbach, Anson. The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor. First edition. Forms of Living. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Overview Claim: there is an eclipse of hopes Tue · Dec 3 post · 10 min Digital labour and the theory of value Fuchs, Christian. Digital Labour and Karl Marx. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. PART I Theoretical Foundations of Studying Digital Labour Claim: An understanding of Mon · Nov 18 post · 2 min Software vs human work rituals Kenneth S. Rubin - Essential Scrum. A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (2012, Addison-Wesley Professional).. 0. Introduction Claim: Scrum can be a way of making Tue · Nov 5 post · 2 min Marxist analysis today Fuchs, Christian. Digital Labour and Karl Marx. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. 0. Introduction Claim: The task of this book is to better understand Tue · Oct 29 post · 2 min Technical vs political Cowen, Deborah. “The Deadly Life of Logistics,” University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Claims: Logistics is an industry that is politically charged while presents itself as neutral. It is Wed · Oct 16 post · 1 min Change and continuity in the cultural industries (D. Hesmondhalgh) David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural  Industries, Introduction, Research Gate, 2012. Claim: the cultural industries have undergone remarkable transformation since the early 1980s. Who deals with: Opposes a view that Fri · Oct 4 post · 6 min Situated knowledge: the world as the trickster Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies14, no. 3 (1988): 575–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066. Thu · Sep 19 post · 5 min Subjects of digital labour: towards the roadmap (2) Abstract The problem with today’s critical discourse around the future of work lies in the assumption that methods used by worker’s right movements are readily available Fri · Sep 13 post · 2 min Social formations in technology, part 2: Kern's The Culture of Time and Space 1880-191 Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983. Overview Claim: Beginning of XX century has seen a change in technology that Fri · Aug 30 post · 2 min Social formations in technology. Part 1. Control Revolution Part 1 of a series of short book reviews themed around social formations in technology. Includes Control revolution, 1997, by J.S. Beniger; Anson Rabinbach’s. The Eclipse Thu · Feb 18 post · 1 min Notes for Inigo Wilkins, Andrew Osborne: Catalysing Dissent 21 century crowds: irreversible noise and computational immanence. Unilateral unbinding (F. Laruelle) of the reciprocity of thought and being is of key importance to the assessment of the Mon · Jan 25 post · 1 min Notes for Georg Simmel, The Stranger Stranger (as a sociological form) is the conceptual unity of 'wandering' and 'fixation'. Potential wanderer - someone who hasn't belonged to the Thu · Jan 14 post · 2 min Notes on Race, The Floating Signinfier, Stuart Hall lecture [Stuart Hall] wants to understand how racism is cultivated in our imaginations, of how it works in our heads, so that we can better combat it on the Sun · Jan 10 post · 5 min Alberto Toscano, notes on the talk: Real Abstraction and the Dialectic Projects to revive the dialectic as the mode of thinking/practice: Jameson, Valences of Dialectic, Hegel Variations 1. Method. Treating the dialectic as a pre-existing method (that can older notes →