“digital labour” – from a film set at ROG. 2007
If you have not seen this; check it out!
The germinal “Wages for Housework” manifesto reworked word for word to provoke thinking about labour and facebook, and by extension other commercial digital projects that are user content generating/ed.
Could this be considered particularly relevant to the extensive use of facebook for social justice movements? Does this wed social justice to the emerging re-working of capitalism? And suppression through defuse market-ized permission?
here is the original: “Wages for Housework” by Silvia Federici
http://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/silvia-federici-wages-against-housework/
here are a few popular writings about the writ:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/wages-for-facebook
http://www.eyebeam.org/projects/wages-for-facebook
“Wages For Facebook draws upon ideas from a 1970s feminist activist campaign as means to think through and challenge relationships of capitalism, class and affective labor at stake within social media today. The project has to date included website, public discussions & workshops and installations with manifestations online and in Chicago, New York, London, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockholm.
In the 70s Wages For Housework demanded that the state pay women for their unwaged housework and caregiving, as the market economy was built upon massive amounts of this unacknowledged work—and its laborers could be seen to constitute a huge working class entirely overlooked by existing Marxist or socialist critiques. Wages for Housework built upon discourse from the anticolonial movement in order to extend the analysis of unwaged labor from the factory to the home. Along these lines Wages For Facebook attempts to draw upon feminist discourse to extend the discussion of unwaged labor to new forms of value creation and exploitation online.” –http://www.eyebeam.org/projects/wages-for-facebook
PS: where are the servers? and what are their effects and affects?
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