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The Powers of the Exploited and the Social Ontology of Praxis
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018 This contribution is the first part of a debate between Michael Hardt/Toni Negri and David Harvey on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary. The discussion focuses on the question of what capitalism looks like today and how it can best be challenged.
Michael Hardt, Toni Negri
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Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012 This paper investigates how four specific emergent technologies, namely affective computing, augmented reality, cloud-based systems, and human machine symbiosis, demonstrate how technological innovation nurtured inside the University is commodified and ...
Richard Hall, Bernd Stahl
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Technology and the servicelisation of labour: from immateriality to innovative uncertainty [PDF]
Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 2008 This article discusses the concepts of servicelisation of labour and innovation in complex organisational contexts. We consider that, at the present stage of societal development, the expansion of services itself represents the course from one industrial model to another, i.e. to a set of ways or methods of producing that are different.
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Learning to Immaterial Labour 2.0: MySpace and Social Networks [PDF]
, 2007 Why did News Corporation spend $580 million on MySpace, one of the fastest growing websites on the internet? Our contention is that it contains a dynamic new source of creative power: what we call ‘immaterial labour 2.0’.
Coté, Mark, Pybus, Jennifer
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Substrate Engineering of SWCNT p–n Junctions for Dual‐Mode Power Generation and Heat‐Flux Sensing
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Through substrate engineering alone, a single‐walled carbon nanotube p–n junction device switches between two functions under uniform infrared irradiation. A low‐absorbance substrate sustains a central hot junction for continuous power generation, whereas high‐absorbance substrates transiently invert the temperature gradient for sensitive heat‐flux ...
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Social Semiotics, 2006 Language, image, and ambiance production used to go under the sign of cultural labour. Today, these increasingly gather under the banner of immaterial labour. It is this part of cultural labour, a part of cultural labour most explicitly projecting itself as labour, that I want to discuss in this article.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Liinc em Revista, 2014 RESUMO As jornadas de junho de 2013 são apreendidas como um levante metropolitano da multidão do trabalho imaterial. Um novo tipo de trabalho, que acontece nos serviços e nas metropoles, enfrenta a mobilidade e, pois, a questão dos transportes como uma ...
Giuseppe Cocco
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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