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Technoprecarious /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lab, Precarity
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Goldsmiths Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Information society.
Technology > Social aspects.
Digital communications.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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