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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The Sociology of Platforms

  • The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

  • If uber are acting like this now, how would they act if they had a monopoly?

  • Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

  • Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

  • What is platform cooperativism?

  • Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

  • Building the cult of airbnb

  • Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

  • Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

  • Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

  • Technology, regulation and disruption

  • Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

  • Uber as a moral project

  • The spammy origins of Airbnb 

  • The ‘injustice’ that motivated Uber

  • The monopoly bias in the sharing economy

  • From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

  • What makes the sharing economy go round?

  • A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

  • The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

  • How do Americans define the sharing economy?

  • The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

  • The foundational lie of digital capitalism

  • Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

  • Isomorphic Inequalities

  • Uber’s managed labor force

  • A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

  • The Politics of the Platform Society

  • the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

  • from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

  • call for papers: IPP2016 “the platform society” (via @claudiakincaid)

  • digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

  • the turn away from contract labour in the sharing economy 

  • a foretaste of the coming uber wars

  • the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

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