Week Eight /  February 27:

 

The Rise of Immaterial Labour, Precarity and Social Media

 

Reading:

• Arıkan, Burak, and D. Gül. 2009. "Notes on Immaterial Labor"(website). Interventions,  an online journal of the Columbia University Graduate Program in Modern Art. 

 

Supplemental Reading:

• Tarì, Marcello, and Ilaria Vanni. 2005. “On the Life and Deeds of San Precario, Patron    Saint of Precarious Workers and Lives.” At Fibre Culture Journal, issue 5, “Precarious  Labour.”

 

Screening: Sleep Dealer, dir. Alex Rivera, (2008) USA, 90:00.