Machines & Measure

Phoebe Moore

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Hosted by <A HREF="https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/business/research/units/cppe" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Leicester School of Business Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy</A> (CPPE) & <A HREF="http://www.cseweb.org.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Conference of Socialist Economists</A> (CSE) South Group Organised by <A HREF="https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Phoebe Moore</A><A HREF="https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A> 
How are machines being used in contemporary capitalism to perpetuate control and to intensify power relations at work? Theorizing how this occurs through discussions about the physical machine, the calculation machine and the social machine, this workshop re-visits questions of the incorporation and absorption of workers as appendages within the machine as Marx identified as well as new methods to numerate without, necessarily, remuneration. Speakers ask to what extent control is underway via intensified methods to capture labour power, including affective and emotional labour; and will identify how calculation and numeration serve to abstract labour through prediction, prescription, monitoring and tracking; on the streets, in homes, offices and factories. The ‘black box’ argument currently fashionable in debates, where digitalized management methods are a(e)ffectively obscured, is challenged, by identifying precisely how algorithmic decisionmaking, automation and machine learning processes operate to control workers and by theorizing the implications of measure inside human/machine experiences of relations of production.
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Speakers
<A HREF="https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/brikenkendradr/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kendra Briken</A> (University of Strathclyde) ‘Welcome within the machine. Human-machine relations on the shop floor’
Frank Engster (Helle Panke, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) ‘Measure Machine Money’
<A HREF="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/gandini/gandini.aspx" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alessandro Gandini</A> (King's College, London) ‘Labour Process Theory and the Gig Economy’
Simon Joyce (Leeds University) ‘Digitalized Management Methods. Black Box or Hidden Abode?’
Adrian Mengay (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) ‘Digitalization of work and heteronomy’
<A HREF="https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Phoebe Moore</A> (University of Leicester) ‘Quantification of A(e)ffective Labour for Change Management’

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