Surplus3: Labour and the Digital
A symposium celebrating the publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford’s Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Pluto Press/Between the Lines)
A Letters & Handshakes event in partnership with the Digital Labour Group (University of Western Ontario).
Free and open to the public.
Please join us as we explore a conceptual vocabulary for grasping the contested intersection of labour and the digital in contemporary capitalism.
Marking the recent publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford’s book, Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex, the Surplus3 symposium will open with 3-minute talks by ten guest presenters, each of whom will speak to one concept.
These flash talks will be followed by a presentation by Dyer-Witheford and a collective conversation with our guests moderated by Alison Hearn.
Surplus3: Labour and the Digital will be followed in early 2016 by a freely distributed publication of the same title, designed by Chris Lee, and featuring work by Public Studio.
Guests + concepts Marcus Boon: depropriation Brett Caraway: connective action Nicole Cohen: hustle Deb Cowen: logistics Nick-Dyer-Witheford: Cyber-Proletariat datejie cheko green: intersectional solidarity Carla Lipsig-Mummé: climate@work Sarah Roberts: in/visibility Kamilla Petrick: acceleration Indu Vashist: indigenisation Yi Wang: the wage
Moderator: Alison Hearn Acknowledgements Letters and Handshakes wish to thank the Digital Labour Group at the University of Western Ontario for generously supporting this project. For more participant bios and more information: http://lettersandhandshakes.org/2015/10/05/surplus3-labour-and-the-digital/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR