155 research outputs found
Complexity and the Law of Armed Conflict
No full textCo-Discussants: Prof. Bill Banks, Syracuse Law School and Ms. Rita Siemion, International Legal Counsel, Human Rights First
Author: Brig. Gen. Ken Watkin, former Judge Advocate General, Canadian Forces, author Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict
Author: Prof. Jeremy Rabkin, George Mason Law, author (with John Yoo), Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for Wa
Convivial Autonomy in Platform Capitalism
No full textThe rise of digital technology and the politics of lockdown have pushed Western economies towards what Nick Srnicek calls ‘platform capitalism’. Digital companies like Uber, Deliveroo, and TaskRabbit develop apps that workers download to acquire work. These apps extract data from their workers in order to subsequently control their conduct. This chapter confronts this situation of digital governmentality with the workerist notion of autonomy to assess what autonomy can mean in the age of platform capitalism. During the 1960s and 1970s, workerists like Tronti and Negri argued that workers can spontaneously organize resistance against capital and thereby lead the way towards an autonomous future. Their findings were, however, on the basis of observations from 1960s factory struggles, not from today’s digital platform labour. Emancipatory initiatives should reinvent the concept of ‘autonomy’ to emphasize ways out of platform capitalism. This chapter interprets workerist autonomy along the lines of ‘conviviality’, as discussed by degrowth thinkers like Illich and Latouche and concludes that privately owned platforms tend to become radical monopolies, whereas cooperative digital platforms could become convivial tools for collective self-organization
Pocket Change: Five Small Fables
No full textI was surprised to note the publisher here. These are good Christian fables. The first puts a bobcat and his natural prey, a rabbit, in a tough scene together. Moral? Sometimes if you expect enough of someone, you get it. Good! The second story frames a question well about two young beavers and guilt. Plain Riches dramatizes wealth and poverty in the persons of a greedy cheetah and a gracious elephant. Give Us a Riddle is less defined at its end, I would say. A monkey and lion riddle against each other and from different perspectives. The final fable is Old Stories. It suggests nicely that the boring old stories people reject have something important to offer. The art includes monochromes, silhouettes, and multi-colored full pages -- including a strong two-page spread at the center of the book.Apparent sixth printingDawn L. Watkin
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