Drawing upon case studies from Cape Town, ‘Africa’s smartest city’, this article proposes three theses on ‘urban-digital citizenship’.
// Ilia Antenucci and Federico Tomasello (2022)
Publications
// Armin Beverungen (in print, 2022)
Wissensgeschichte Des Verhaltens. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, edited by Georg Toepfer and Sophia Gräfe. Berlin: DeGruyter.
Automatisiertes Verhalten: Regierungskünste Bei Amazon
As early as 2015, an article in the New York Times triggered a major discussion about Amazon’s competitive corporate culture, strongly influenced by company founder Jeff Bezos, and the rough…
// Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (2022)
Platformization of Urban Life. Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities, edited by Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl. Berlin: Transcript Verlag.
Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructures in the Production of Urbanity
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility.…
// Armin Beverungen (2022)
Digital Culture & Society 7 (2): 185–202.
The Invisualities of Capture in Amazon’s Logistical Operations
This paper explores the status of visuality in surveillance capitalism by considering its role in the management of Amazon’s logistical operations. Whereas Amazon is often portrayed as being at the…
// Ilia Antenucci (pre-print, 2021)
Sensing In/Security. Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures, edited by Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Pöchacker, and Geoff C. Bowker. Manchester: Mattering Press.
Smart Cities, Smart Borders. Sensing Networks and Security in the Urban Space
Sensing infrastructures are increasingly disseminating and performing across the urban space techniques that are specific to borders, and especially to ‘smart’ borders, such as algorithmic profiling, biometrics recognition, scanning and…
// Armin Beverungen (2021)
Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans Koordination und Kalkül im digitalen Kapitalismus., edited by Timo Daum and Sabine Nuss, 95–109. Berlin: Karl Dietz.
Kybernetischer Kapitalismus? Amazon, Algorithmisches Management und Aneignung
Supposedly, capitalism manages without planning because the “invisible hand” of the market mediates between our self-interests, between supply and demand, without this having to be planned or prejudged in advance.…
// Armin Beverungen (2021)
Explorations in Digital Cultures, edited by Marcus Burkhardt, Mary Shnayien, and Katja Grashöfer. Lüneburg: meson press.
Remote Control: Algorithmic Management of Circulation at Amazon
This chapter examines how logistical media organize circulation at the online retailer Amazon. The chapter takes a look at the warehouse and the interaction of algorithmic management with architectural infrastructures…
// Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (2021)
kuckuck. notizen zur alltagskultur, 1(21): 28–32.
Der Digitalität ausgeliefert!? – Essenslieferdienste zwischen verkörperten Codes, Un_Sichtbarkeit und städtischer (Re-)Produktion
Zwischen knallig-künstlicher, fast aufdringlicher Sichtbarkeit und algorithmisch-abstrakter Unsichtbarkeit schwebend hat sich eine weitere Infrastruktur in unseren urbanen Alltag geschlichen: die der Informations- und Daten’lieferdienste‘. Konstruiert aus Codes, eingeschrieben in Apparchitekturen…
// Ilia Antenucci (2021)
Infrastructures of Extraction in the Smart City: Zones, Finance, and Platforms in New Town Kolkata
International Journal of Communication. 15(2021): 2652–2668.This article explores the infrastructures of value extraction that emerge as the township of New Town Kolkata is being transformed into a “smart” city. As the processes of digitalization take…