New Contribution: Anarchic Discourse – {adiscourse.net}
Have a look at our new submission for #3 Unstable Infrastructures! In two contributions, Grayson Bailey presents their project {adiscourse.net}, a non-authorial discourse platform. {adiscourse.net} is an engagement with the dialetheic condition of the discursive field, an oscillation between incoherent overdetermination and coherent delimitation, without attempting to hierarchically simplify discourse into underlying parts or overriding assemblies. Bailey's contribution comprises a theoretical reflection as well as an accompanying video showing the technical details of the project.
New Contribution: Digital Labour and Social Reproduction – Crowdwork in Germany and Romania
Issue #6: Politics of Reproduction has received a new submission: In Digital Labour and Social Reproduction – Crowdwork in Germany and Romania, Mira Wallis demonstrates how crowdwork platforms such as Upwork, Appen or Microworkers intervene in the field of social reproduction. She does so on the basis of two questions: Firstly, she explores why people in Germany and Romania choose crowdwork and how these motivations are related to local conditions of reproduction. To what extent is their decision to engage in this form of digital home-based platform labour also a strategy for dealing with multiple crises of social reproduction? Secondly, she investigates how crowdworkers navigate the different spatialities and temporalities that emerge through working on a global digital labour platform from their private homes. Both questions are discussed on the basis of in-depth ethnographic research on crowdwork in Germany and Romania between 2018 and 2021.
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