"We no longer need to abolish it, since it’s already abolishing itself. Our task in the present and the future is rather to manage its decline." Excellent @Cominsitu! curedquail.com/Managing-Decli…

2018… UG student on the UCU pickets 2024… PG Masters and about to start a PhD. Congratulations Declan McLean

The Automated Heart: Digital Domesticity and Emotional Labour Saving uwlpress.uwl.ac.uk/newvistas/arti… A little piece extending the analysis of domestic tech in 'After Work' to social robots. Regressive gender dynamics! Digital death! The automation of 'quality time'! It's got it all.

History will remember the seven who did the right thing for parents and stood by their class 👏 🙌🏽 ✊️ BBC News - Labour suspends seven rebel MPs over two-child benefit cap bbc.com/news/articles/…

Chatted to Helen Carr for Intelligence Squared about gut feelings, gendered colons and the demons that lurk in our bowels Profile Books Wellcome Collection. Available here open.spotify.com/episode/75Y8jM…

Join us for a joint RedFuturesMag + LSFRC launch of the new Star Wars Andor book on August 6! Andor Analysed explores the politics and impact of the series. It's a different kind of #StarWars, telling stories of rebellion and struggle Sign up here: lu.ma/09tqqoh0

The collected works of our late comrade Marina Vishmidt have been compiled in this wonderful website. …slavmedak-437f6059be706df0d.gitlab.io

Doing a book talk in Edinburgh Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop as part of the Book Fringe on Tues 13 August at 1pm lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-…

Our policy report written for the @BRAID_UK (2023) consultation with the UK government was published this week. This report was written with Cailean Gallagher and explores the double regulatory gap that platform workers face. zenodo.org/records/131443…

"bossware doesn't just let your boss spy on you – it lets your boss control you" Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK read my research on algorithmic management and wrote about how Microsoft, Oracle and other software vendors "are transforming our workplaces with virtual whips": x.com/doctorow/statu…

this is tomorrow!

Finally published on an issue (45:3). Feel free to share it! Sage Journals New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work - Maurizio Atzeni, Lorenzo Cini, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Stop the deeming of FE lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges. chng.it/GkRJpdbhfT

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Neue Podcastfolge GLOBAL TROUBLE 🎙️🔊: About #Apartheid — Rassismus, Widerstand, Neuanfang? Vor 30 Jahren endete das Apartheidsregime in #Südafrika — was hat sich seitdem verändert? JETZT ANHÖREN: medico.de/about-aparthei…

Last week I passed my viva (minor corrections). A big thanks to my examiners Kendra Briken and Charles Umney for a tough but enjoyable discussion. I am also very grateful for the advice and support of my supervisors, Mark CERIC and Alex Beresford. I was a lucky PhD student!

In den 1960er-Jahren hielt Adorno mehrere Vorträge in Wien. Einige Veranstaltungen wurden von der Österreichischen Mediathek mitgeschnitten und können heute im audiovisuellen Archiv des Technischen Museums Wien nachgehört werden: mediathek.at/oesterreich-am…

Come work with me. UK Research and Innovation -funded project on Planetary AI. #UKRIFLF Positions: Research Fellow (X2). Duration: 42 months. Location: Edinburgh. Links to apply given below. Get in touch if you have questions. #artificalintelligence #MachineLearning #Workers #digital

Lewis has obviously been preparing his notes for the Strathclyde UCU AGM on 30th October. Be like Lewis, be at the AGM.