The Next Layer - textiles http://tnl-6.local/taxonomy/term/1213/0 en-US BLOODY TAYLORISM AND COGNITIVE CAPITAL http://tnl-6.local/node/1457 <p>This text highlights relationships between different regimes of labour and how they are exploited by capital, in the context of textiles and clothes. Global inequalities are being exploited through the help of ICT and the general drive to labour saving techniques. What makes matters worse is that those participating as producers and consumers remain invisible to each other.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1457" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1457#comments English Research Technopolitics development labour textiles Technopolitics Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:24:37 +0000 John Barker 1457 at http://tnl-6.local Reading the Digital City: New political technologies in the Network Society (revised version) http://tnl-6.local/node/1346 <p>This article examines the 'digital city' debate of the mid 1990s as a point of departure for a media-historical questioning of how technology and the discourse about technology were used as an experimental playground for new forms of knowledge that are fundamental for the understanding of today’s network society. This text has been presented as a conference paper at the <a href="http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm">'networks and sustainability'</a> track of the 'textiles' conference in Riga in June 2010. The paper will also appear in a special edition of the Arts and Communications Journal edited by RIXC at the end of 2010. </p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1346" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1346#comments English Article networks networks and sustainability Telepolis textiles Peer Preview Group Technopolitics Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:17:45 +0000 Clemens Apprich 1346 at http://tnl-6.local