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Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares

13-Mar-16

Book summary Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency […]

Networks, Institutions, Translation

27-Nov-08

[text forthcoming in special issue of Television & New Media on ‘MyMedia Studies’.] Sociality is always immanent to institutional arrangements. This was the analysis of Althusser and later Foucault. The state, family, school, prison, hospital, madhouse. During the time of Western modernity, as it is commonly understood, we can add the firm, the union, the […]

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