User:Ruben/Transmediale 2015/Work

Your Future at Work: Logistics, Rights and Dilemmas

[Third section on cooperatives is particularly interesting]

Conference Stream Work. The panel will aim to locate and discuss the new processes of capital accumulation which support today's material and immaterial labour.

When labour is more and more defined by algorithms, not much seems to be left at stake. Rankings and ratings state networked laborers’ performance, algorithmic architectures regulate and control workplace routines, and numbers of “likes” constantly intensify and translate social interaction into work. In the days of machinic capitalism everything is datafied and thus commodified. “Task rabbits”, knowledge workers and social media users all confront a similar impasse: a 24/7 working time of constant availability and subtle control. How can one really escape the technologies of total capture? How can one withdraw and reclaim the right to refuse to work?

The panel will aim to locate and discuss the new processes of capital accumulation which support today's material and immaterial labour and will particularly raise questions about the possibility of resistance: Is unionisation and organisation in digital labor at all possible? What does it take to build new bonds of solidarity and what would they be driven by?

Labour in digital society: your future at work.

How algorithms make knowledge.

Digital labour: no difference between work & holiday - efficiency ideal.

There never seems to be time. Capitalist hiding behind technology.

Project: wages for Facebook - owning the means of production.

wwworkers unite!

How show younger artist they need rights & how do they unite etc.?

What does it mean to make a demand today?

• See the Wages for Housework campaign. (70's feminist movement)
  • Wages against housework -> replace 'housework' with 'Facebook'
  • Housework also used to be stated as a "fulfilling activity".
• "wage hides the money that goes into profit"
• demands for wage is first step against it
  • it exposes the work/labour
  • www.wagesforfacebook.com

Logistical Media, parametric politics

• Infrastructural role of media (CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning, etc.)
  • makes them influence how labour is organised
  • They tell us little of how power works
• China -> Europe/USA: the New Silk Road.
• The designers task is to build the black box (that regulates?)
  • Get inside black box politics

"Internet as playground factory"

• Its not classical capitalism "its worse" [why??]
  • Techno determinism
  • Counter free market
• platform capitalism (eg. Uber) -> (15 billion dollar of fame - think outside the boss)
  • Sharing economy is 'huggable'
  • Millenials want to have access instead of possession
    • Just in time delivery, like streaming.
  • Uber language: 'fired' is now called 'deactivated'.
• School teaches students to be workers instead of cooperatives.
• Platform cooperatism
  • How do you get rights back for 'online' organised workers?

Cooperation platform: help each other on social security & cut out devious middle man.

Facebook is now scared after proposal to tax companies per user in the country, to avoid tax evasion etc.

Contrary to what often is stated (and used in an argument): > Technology is not a constant new