Publications

// Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (2021)

Der Digitalität ausgeliefert!? – Essenslieferdienste zwischen verkörperten Codes, Un_Sichtbarkeit und städtischer (Re-)Produktion.

In: kuckuck. notizen zur alltagskultur, Nr. 1/21. S. 28–32.

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…

// Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (im Erscheinen, 2022)

Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructures in the Production of Urbanity.

In: Strüver, Anke/ Bauriedl, Sybille (Hg.): Platformization of Urban Life. Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities. Transcript Verlag.

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.…

// Antenucci, Ilia (2021a)

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…

// Antenucci, Ilia (2021b)

Smart cities, smart borders. Sensing networks and security in the urban space.

In: Klimburg-Witjes, N., Poechacker, N., and Bowker, G.C. eds., Sensing In/Security. Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures. Mattering Press.

Sensing In/Security is a book project that investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity. It extends long standing concerns with infrastructuring and emergent modes of…

// Beverungen, Armin (2021)

Remote Control: Algorithmic Management of Circulation at Amazon.

In: Explorations in Digital Cultures, edited by Marcus Burkhardt, Mary Shnayien, and Katja Grashöfer, online first. Lüneburg: meson press.

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…

// Beverungen, Armin (2021)

Kybernetischer Kapitalismus? Amazon, Algorithmisches Management und Aneignung.

In: Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans Koordination und Kalkül im digitalen Kapitalismus., edited by Timo Daum and Sabine Nuss, 95–109. Berlin: Karl Dietz.

Der Markt soll es angeblich immer richten, dabei plant das Kapital selbst, was das Zeug hält. Mithilfe von Big Data, Algorithmen und Feedback-Technologien wollen die Plattform-Giganten Amazon, Google und Alibaba…