63. Prime Labor, Living and Dead (patreon teaser)

Published: April 24, 2021, 10:49 p.m.

b'In part two of our analysis of Amazon, we focus on the labor processes and managerial practices within Amazon warehouses. \\u201cFactory work exhausts the nervous system to the uttermost,\\u201d Marx wrote in Capital Vol. 1, and through the despotic discipline of dead labour used to dominate living labour, capital \\u201cdoes away with the many-sided play of the muscles and confiscates every atom of freedom [from workers], both in bodily and intellectual activity.\\u201d\\n\\nSome stuff we reference:\\n\\u2022 Machinic dispossession and augmented despotism: Digital work in an Amazon warehouse | Alessandro Delfanti | New Media & Society: sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1177/1461444819891613 \\n\\u2022 Surviving Amazon | Sam Adler Bell | Logic Magazine: logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/\\n\\u2022 Seasonal Associates | Heike Geissler | Semiotext(e): mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasonal-associate\\n\\u2022 Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry | Karl Marx | Capital Vol. 1: marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nTMK shirts are now available: bonfire.com/mech-luddite/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)'