Situated Exploitation? From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City!
A panel discussion to launch the latest Situated Technologies Pamphlet. http://archleague.org/2010/11/situated-exploitation-from-mobile-playgrounds-to-sweatshop-city/ Featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Laura Y. Liu, Trebor Scholz, and Neil Smith Monday, November 1, 2010 7:00 p.m. Cabinet 300 Nevins Street (between Union and Sackett) Brooklyn, New York For a free download of the pamphlet, click here http://archleague.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/SitTech7_spreads2.pdf Please join us for this panel discussion on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space, in a context where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. We begin with the question: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation and “the urban”? The conversation will look at urban spaces of technology through the lens of digital and not-digital work in terms of those less visible sites and forms of work such as homework, care work, interactivity on social networking sites, life energy spent contributing to corporate crowd sourcing projects, and other unpaid work. In examining the shift of labor markets to the Internet, we tease out the ways that traditional sweatshop economies continue to structure the urban environment. What happens when we are not only “on” the Social Web, we are becoming it–no matter where we are–¬and when Internet users are ever more vulnerable to novel enticements, conveniences, and marketing approaches. Commercial and government surveillance are sure to escalate as new generations become increasingly equipped with mobile platforms, interacting with “networked things.” Panelists will also suggest tangible alternatives. We need public debate about contemporary forms of exploitation. Attention must be focused on social action and, while always in need of scrutiny, state regulation and policy. About the Series The Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: how our experience of space and the choices we make within it are affected by a range of mobile, pervasive, embedded, or otherwise “situated” technologies. Published three times a year over three years, the series is structured as a succession of nine “conversations” between researchers, writers, and other practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering. This program was made possible in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
