Whether you’re part of the TikTok generation or a Facebook boomer: today, almost nothing influences us as much as the tech monopolies that govern our everyday lives. But what happens to democratic processes and ideals, when tech bros take over the managment of public goods, politics, and spaces? At re:publica25, Laura Hille and Maja-Lee Voigt critically map the (political) influence and strategic network of the Tech Bro Universe from the Silicon Valley to the White House.
Paper Presentation by “Automating the Logistical City”s Armin Beverungen and Maja-Lee Voigt on Notes from a Critical Ethnography of Amazon’s Urbanism at sts Hub Berlin.
Automating the Logistical City’s Maja-Lee Voigt was a guest commentator on Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s “Politisches Feuilleton” this week, discussing how Amazon is taking over more and more of public infrastructure and why Germany needs more tech literacy to counter this trend.
Tech companies like Amazon have quietly become our neighbors in cities. Automating the Logistical City’s Maja-Lee Voigt talked about how they are gaining governmental power and are often perceived as a standard at the re:publica 2024 in Berlin.
Talk by Armin Beverungen, Ulf Treger and Maja-Lee Voigt at the Speaker Series “Delivery Exception – Supply Chain Justice & Reconciliation” organized by Matthew Hockenberry
20. Februar 2024 * Exil im JUPITER
[5. Stock, Ex-Karstadt-Sport-Gebäude,
Mönckebergstraße 2-4, 20095 Hamburg]
Workshop, 15.30-17.30 Uhr
Panel Diskussion mit Expertinnen, 18.15-19.30 Uhr
Workshop-Anmeldung gerne an logisticalcity@leuphana.de
Are you an Amazon (Flex) delivery driver? Then we’re looking for you! We’re curious to learn more about your everyday life, the work you do, your urban knowledge, and how you think Amazon is influencing society and city space.
Amazon liefert alles, jederzeit. “Automating the Logistical City”s Maja-Lee Voigt spricht über die Monopolstellung des Megakonzerns und den Widerstand gegen ihn.
In this special issue for “Digital Geography and Society”, Automating the Logistical City’s Maja-Lee Voigt and Niloufar Vadiati (HafenCity University Hamburg) seek to draw together a diverse range of essays that addresses prefigurative grassroots urbanism in the context of post-digital cities.
The Automating the Logistical City project team is organizing a panel on “Circulation Obsession – Following the Flows and Flaws of Big Tech’s Urban Logistical Infrastructures” at the sts-hub in Aachen this March 15-17, 2023. With guests Sarrah Kassem and Valentin Niebler.
In this episode of “Hacker Culture”, project member Maja-Lee Voigt introduces her former research on hackfeminist collectives, discussing how important especially FLINTA-hackspaces are in the production of urban spaces in an increasingly digitalized city.
