Essays about: "Immaterial Labour"

Found 4 essays containing the words Immaterial Labour.

  1. 1. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE

  3. 2. Urban Curation - An explorative study on understandings, roles and functions of curating practices in urban contexts

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Marthe Nehl; [2018]
    Keywords : urban curating; artistic practices; Thirdspace; urban culture; neoliberal planning theory;

    Abstract : Curating practices appear in various fields as a common practice of immaterial labour today. To ‘curate’ is an active verb that suggests ‘doing’ something. Seldom if ever are the implications of curating critically discussed outside the arts, and this provides a reason for this thesis to investigate. READ MORE

  4. 3. Controlling the Uncontrollable

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Amalie Helth Christiansen; Beatrice Bender; [2017]
    Keywords : Value Co-Creation; Governance; Co-Control; Space and Place; Online Brand Communities; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to tackle the paradox of governing free labour by exploring and drawing further understanding to the co-creation process in online brand communities. Originality: This study is the first to investigate co-creation from the theoretical perspective of the production of space and the first to introduce the concept of co-control in regards to the management of co-creation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Idiot Diagram : DIS GON BE SHAPED LIKE A MUFFIN at some point

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Cecilie Hundevad Meng; [2015]
    Keywords : Utopia; Heterotopia; Melancholy; Presence; Absence; Capitalized art; Sensations; Immaterial Labour; Cognitive Capitalism; Contemporary Art; Internet Aware Art; Identity;

    Abstract : The essay acts as a blueprint over my artistic practice. It is through the friction caused by th relations between the Keywords mentioned above I strive to achieve a dynamic which will act as an interlocutor between the fields, which are not separated but which fail to understand each others' logic and instead more or less intentionally seek to overwrite each other. READ MORE