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Nick Srnicek

  • Aaahas quoted2 years ago
    Interrogating the spaces of reproductive labour may be one way of contributing to the construction of a new kind of explicitly feminist post-work common sense.
  • Aaahas quoted2 years ago
    According to many of its theorists and advocates, the new socialist byt involved three crucial spatial components: communal laundries, communal childcare facilities, and communal kitchens.
  • Darinahas quoted2 years ago
    deemed the insurmountable apex
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    As a means to outsource traditional household labour, digital platforms have been one of the most significant technological transformations in recent decades. They are not a reduction of work, of course, but rather a transfer of work from the household to the market
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    picture of the smart home future, imagine trying to fix a malfunctioning printer, forever. Households’ resident IT experts can expect plenty more to do as we enter an era of digital housework
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Already in housework and childcare, men tend to do work that is more autonomous, less routine, and more engaging than that of their female partners.137 Much the same could be said of digital labour in the sphere of housework; those who lead on implementing smart home technologies often see it as a hobby – at least initially
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    As Judy Wajcman notes, ‘The drive to motorize all household tasks – including brushing teeth, squeezing lemons and carving meat – [was] less a response to need than a reflection of the economic and technical capacity for making motors.’
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    While capacities for extending free time may have grown, social norms, standards, and expectations have evolved in such a way that these advances are minimised
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    it is our contention that restrictive norms should not be allowed to petrify around reproductive labour and that ideas about socially acceptable living standards should be revisited. The post-work imaginary should be as excited by the prospect of high-quality canteens as it is about labour-intensive home-cooked meals
  • Andrey Karabanovhas quoted2 years ago
    the idea that women wanted washing machines because they saved labour [was] lost in stereotypes of women as acquisitive, emotional, frivolous, and houseproud’
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