with Alessandro Delfanti and Jenny Kennedy,
moderated by Julia Kloiber
(in English)

What changes when different types of labour, material or immaterial, physical or affective, are undertaken or organised by machines? Can interactions between humans and machines reflect back and influence interactions between people? Taking as a starting point two recently published books, the Smart Wife by Jenny Kennedy and the Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon by Alessandro Delfanti, this panel invites their authors to discuss how smart infrastructures and their logistics affect work and everyday life. Domestic labour and work at a warehouse are respectively studied as examples paying attention to the promises and the drawbacks of technology. Together with Julia Kloiber as a moderator, the speakers will look into how the use of such infrastructures can lead to people being treated as robots or objects, as well as how forms of unionisation, resistance or subversion might still be possible.