The production of neoliberal subjectivity in platform capitalism. Comparative interpretative hypotheses

Armano, Emiliana; Mazali, Tatiana; Teli, Maurizio

doi:10.3280/sc2020-059006

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“…The social actors who inhabit the social and technological space of the digital platforms have neoliberal subjectivities that seem to adapt well to remote work mediated by platforms and potentially controlled by algorithms: in fact, they enact behaviours of self-empowerment and self-activation that conform with typical neoliberal paradigms (Armano, Mazali & Teli, 2020). Nevertheless it is evident that, in their exposure within the media space, social actors are under increasing pressure to combine operability and productivity, i.e.…”

Section: Algorithmic Capitalism and Education Managementmentioning

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Enhancement or impoverishment? Algorithmic management and ‘distance’ education during the pandemic

Armano,

Cavazzini,

Maccarone

2024

WOLG

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This article aims to develop some interpretative hypotheses on the transformation of education that digitalisation and neoliberalism have brought about in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on changes in the Italian education system to outline the general, structural trend. In order to illustrate how transformations in the education system can be viewed as a process of capitalist valorisation, we present the insights offered by a set of contemporary workerist enquiries and use the theoretical concepts of ‘hyperindustrialisation’ and ‘hybridisation’, drawn also from the research work of Romano Alquati. Our conclusions show how work in education can be reconceptualised in relation to the general process of digital socialisation and its contradictions: we unveil hidden sides of the platformisation of education and provide a disenchanted view of digital solutionism.

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Section: Algorithmic Capitalism and Education Managementmentioning

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Enhancement or impoverishment? Algorithmic management and ‘distance’ education during the pandemic

Armano,

Cavazzini,

Maccarone

2024

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“…Les acteurs qui habitent cet espace sont des subjectivités néolibérales qui semblent s'adapter assez bien au travail à distance : en effet, ils mobilisent les tendances à l'autoresponsabilisation et à l'auto-activation qui constituent des paradigmes néolibéraux typiques 9 . Les acteurs subissent une intensification de la pression visant à combiner opérativité et productivité, c'est-à-dire à accroître la capacité à gérer et à reproduire les activités interstitielles, l'adaptation à la flexibilisation croissante et l'aptitude à réagir suivant le degré de flexibilité impliqué par la crise pandémique 10 .…”

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“…Furthermore, their performances are segmented, individualised, and physically separated from the ones of other workers. Within this scenario, it emerges a neoliberal subjectivity defined by individual autonomy and proactive attitudes towards work and social life (Armano et al, 2020).…”

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Remote Work Between Narratives of Indipendence and Fractured Experiences. A Qualitative Research During the Pandemic Crisis.

Risi

Pronzato

2021

SPIR

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This paper focuses on how remote workers experienced their job and everyday life during the Italian lockdown imposed by the national government to contain the spread of COVID-19. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on their working and personal conditions. The study draws from 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with remote workers, i.e., individuals which could work from home through digital technologies during the national lockdown. Results highlight that during the lockdown, some participants attempted to cope with the unprecedented triumph of technologically mediated work, others described remote work as liberating and attractive, as it avoids commuting and allow people to organize their activities autonomously, without constraints of space and time. However, their initial enthusiasm decreased after a few weeks of domestic confinement. The experience of remote workers that emerges is a “fractured” one, which appears as a characteristic feature of forced and continuous remote work. Indeed, the coronavirus crisis has accentuated the infrastructural role of digital platforms and intensified the ‘deep mediatization’ of social life and labour, thereby normalizing transmedia work and the ‘extension of already media saturated working conditions’.

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The production of neoliberal subjectivity in platform capitalism. Comparative interpretative hypotheses

Cited by 7 publications

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Enhancement or impoverishment? Algorithmic management and ‘distance’ education during the pandemic

Enhancement or impoverishment? Algorithmic management and ‘distance’ education during the pandemic

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Remote Work Between Narratives of Indipendence and Fractured Experiences. A Qualitative Research During the Pandemic Crisis.

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