Tuesday, February 2, 2020 | 5:30 PM Klein Conference Room A510, 66 West 12th Street, New York Digital materialities extend beyond the “brute materiality” of wires, servers, and heat. Software elements have their materialities too, and examining the material configurations of computation and representation shows how their constraints are entwined with computational practice. I will
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Emma Park in the Boston Review: “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah”
2018-2019 Faculty Fellow Emma Park recently published a piece in the Boston Review on “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah” with Kevin P. Donovan of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. With overlap with the work of the Center’s Platform Economies Research Group, the article argues that Kenya’s poor were among
Material Political Economies
A ‘material political economy’ is an ordering of the material world that is economically consequential and to which there are actual or potential alternatives. After motivating this idea by drawing on the work of the medieval historian Marc Bloch, Professor Donald MacKenzie will explore the contours of two important current material political economies: ultrafast high-frequency trading,
3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism Conference: November 10th & 11th, 2017
Pleas join us this November 10th and 11th for the 3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism conference! Society’s sudden leap towards digital technologies and electronic platforms signals now, more than ever, the possibility for a truly democratic control over our economic and social worlds. In this spirit, the first Platform Cooperativism conference was held at the New