Ecologies of Labour: Capital Accumulation and Circulant Subjectivities in a Platform Society
Schedule
Wed Mar 22 2023 at 03:00 pm
Location
Aule Santa Cristina | Bologna, EM
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Aula Seminari (I° piano)Dipartimento delle Arti
Piazzetta Morandi, Bologna
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Mattia Frapporti (Unibo): Welcome and Introduction
Tom Vickers (Nottingham Trent University): “Ecological Labour as Movement: From Balancing Alone to Dancing Together”
Amedeo Policante (Nova University of Lisbon) and Erica Borg (King’s College, London): “Ecologies of Labour. Genomic Capital and the Real Subsumption of Life”
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The seminar will delve into the complex subjectivities that characterize global chains of production and circulation in the Anthropocene, opening up a conversation between traditional labour studies and new perspectives emerging from fields such as political ecology and environmental history.
What ecological relationships are cultivated – with the self, with other humans, and with other living beings – through the forms of labour-as-movement found in Amazon warehouses, Uber taxis and high-tech factory farms? And, excavating into the materiality of the body, how is genomics reshaping the political economy of capital accumulation on a global scale? These are two of the question that will drive the two hours seminar titled Ecologies of Labour: Rethinking Capital Accumulation and Circulant Subjectivities in the Platform Society.
More specifically, Tom Vickers will examine the multiple relations between political ecology and labour studies – which also means to examine the relationship between labour precarity and ecological interdependencies – that might help to find new horizons of politics and life.
Amedeo Policante and Erica Borg will move from the assumption that today the production of life has become an integral part of global circuits of capital accumulation, investigating the ways in which genome-editing is adapting animal bodies as living means of production employed in a number of industries.
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More info here: http://www.intotheblackbox.com/events/ecologies-of-labour/
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Where is it happening?
Aule Santa Cristina, Piazzetta G. Morandi n.2 - angolo Via Fondazza,Bologna, ItalyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
