ICS Seminar Series
- Event Name
- ICS Seminar Series
- Date
- 1 June 2017
- Time
- 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
- Location
- Parramatta Campus
Address (Room): EB.G.35
- Description
- How is the subject constructed by technologically mediated platforms? The algorithmic system of Uber is explored, a labor platform which connects passengers with self-employed 'driver-partners'. The understanding of the labouring body maintained via these operations is highly informatic. From onboarding to on-the-road, the driver-partner is continuously reinforced as something ethereal and vestigial—a grouping of informational fields, a minimal human programme still required to pilot a vehicle within a highly scaled architecture of servers and software. However this informatic identity fails to fully exhaust the possibilities in the corporeal. In Bryant's terminology...(see website for full)
Speakers: Luke Munn
Web page: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series
- Contact
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Name: Simone Casey
Phone: 02 9685 9600
School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society
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