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From: Armin Medosch <armin at easynet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Subject: [spectre] Technopolitics Special Event: John Barker, "Bloody
Taylorism and Cognitive Capitalism"
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Technopolitics Special Event
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John Barker, "Bloody Taylorism and Cognitive Capitalism"
Lecture and Discussion

BOEM, Tuesday 11th of December 2012, 8 pm, Koppstrasse 26, 1160 Wien

John Barker presents results of his and Ines Doujak’s recent research
Loomshuttles Warpaths, linking global production chains, labour regimes and
technology with particular reference to the textile and clothing industry.
The lecture will be followed by an open discussion. The event is part of a
series of meetings of the Technopolitics Study Group in Vienna.

Key points of the lecture are

- The co-existence of different modes of production in the same world with
particular reference to the textile and clothing industry
- the particular forms of labour discipline in each mode with reference to
pre-industrial modes of intensity of labour
- what does labour saving machinery mean
- the assumptions of “sourcing”  the ideology of free trade and the ICT-led
revolution in logistics.
- the outsourcing of risk
- the non-repeatability of textiles as a take-off for national industrial
development
- Are we now seeing  the difference between the Marxist categories reserve
army of labour and surplus population, that is the expendability of
 certain forms of people and their labour.

John Barker is a novelist and has written extensively on political economy
for Mute, Variant, and Adbusters magazines as well as the journal Science
as Culture.

Technopolitics is the name of a project that combines research with
self-education through lectures, discussions and other events; we also
strive to create repositories of shared online resources and join theory
with a praxis oriented approach.

Technopolitics emerged out of discussions between Brian Holmes and Armin
Medosch, and has become a research theme explored by a growing number of
people in Chicago, Vienna and other places. An initial collection of ideas
and notes can be found here: http://www.thenextlayer.org/

After Technopolitics at Boem "Smelling the Rat" in 2011, this is the second
time BOEM is hosting a technopolitics meeting. http://www.thenextlayer.org/*
*node/1359 <http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1359>

The BOEM* is, according to its self-description, a typical ex-Yugoslavian
place. A little bit messy or you could also say: with patina. Used. For
more than a decade it´s been well known as “Yugocafé”, which was operated
in combination with construction companies. A typical Viennese corner-café.

BOEM* As A Basis Of Transcultural Supply, As Research Initiative.

http://boem.postism.org/about

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