Corporate personhood
The Hobby Lobby case is rarely foregrounded in discussions of corporate personhood.
Mapping precariousness
“Encoding the Law the Household and the Standardisation Of Uncertainty,” for an edited volume on mapping precariousness.
Contractual Performance, Labor & the Art of Life
An extract from a 2014 conference paper, most of which has been rewritten into draft chapters for Infrastructures of Uncommon Forms. But reminded of it, posted here, for Kesha. (Scroll down for the video performance.)
Erasure, entitlement and mimicry in pop liberal anti-racism
Three articles that should be on everyone’s reading list on the dynamics of entitlement and erasure within purportedly anti-racist milieu:
The abolition and limitation of (which and whose) work?
I had sat down to do a post on automation and the abolition/limit of work-time, but given the level of some of the discussion I’ve seen, that seems to require some preliminaries and backgrounding, so aside from these remarks below, there’s another post on the concept of ‘socially-necessary labour’ here. There’s been some renewed discussion…
Waged work, service work and ‘socially necessary labour’
The wage contract is not identical or commensurate in the sense that the labour it ‘represents’ is or can be identical to the exchange it governs.
Against the “reproductive commons”
I don’t really understand why anyone would use the term “reproductive commons.”
Basic Income, Workfare and affirmations of productivity
For about twenty-four hours, some advocates of a Basic Income responded to the Cypriot government’s announcement of a guaranteed minimum income with a good deal of enthusiasm.
Walter Benjamin’s “The Author As Producer”
There have been many arguments made about the politics of authorship. Yet few of those situated it as long ago as Walter Benjamin did, not only in relation to labor, but in terms of the changing economic patterns and technologies that served to redefine both authorship and labor and, for that matter, any distinctions between…
Zero-hour for Fordist union strategies
Zero-hour contracts have been in the news quite a bit lately. Here are some recent links:
Commodification
‘Commodification’ is often used as a short-hand way of defining what capitalism does, but all too often it’s used as a synonym for transaction or exchange. Yet buying and selling are not specific to capitalism and, more importantly, there are consequences in organising a critique of, or opposition to capitalism on the grounds that ‘markets’…
Affective labour
[This is a fragment from “Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia,” Cultural Studies Review, Vol 18, No 1 (2012), pp. 153-73. The full text can be found here.]
