24/7. Algorithmic sovereignty. Anxiety. Artificial intelligence. Automation. Crowdfunding. Data extraction. Entreprecariat. Exploitation. Free labour. Free time. Gig working. Human-in-the-loop. Logistics. Machine vision. Man-machine complexity. Micro-labour. No future. Outsourcing. Peripheral work. Platform economy. Post-capitalism. Post-work. Procrastination. Quantification. Self-improvement. Social media fatigue. Time management. Unemployment. These are arguably just a few of the many keywords required to navigate our fragile, troubled, scattered present, in which the borders between life and work, home and office, sleep and wake, private and public, human and machine have faded, and in which the personal is not just political but economic. Edited by Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša, featuring words by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo) and Felix Stalder, Silvio Lorusso, Luciana Parisi, and Domenico Quaranta and works by !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Danilo Correale, Elisa Giardina Papa, Sanela Jahić, Silvio Lorusso, Jonas Lund, Michael Mandiberg, Eva and Franco Mattes, Anna Ridler, Sebastian Schmieg, Sašo Sedlaček, and Guido Segni, Hyperemployment – Post-work, Online Labour and Automation is an attempt to scrutinise and explore some of these issues. A catchphrase borrowed from media theorist Ian Bogost, describing “the Exhausting Work of the Technology User,” hyperemployment allows us to grasp a situation which the current pandemic has turned endemic, to analyse the present and discuss possible futures.
EN | 10.5 x 16.7 cm | 160 pp | B/W and 1/32 colour | soft cover | 2020
ISBN 978-88-8056-112-5
Colophon
Hyperemployment
Post-work, Online Labour and Automation
Editors: Domenico Quaranta, Janez Janša
Contributors: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Silvio Lorusso, Luciana Parisi, Domenico Quaranta, Felix Stalder
Project manager: Marcela Okretič
Assistant: Neža Oder
English language editor: Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Alessio D’Ellena (superness.info)
Print: Cicero d.o.o.
No. of copies: 750
Published by: NERO and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Rome, December 2020
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© for texts and photos: the authors
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher.
In the framework of: Hyperemployment – Post-work, Online Labour and Automation
A year-long programme co-curated by Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša, 2019–2020
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Related event: Hyperemployment