Platformization and Its Discontents

This special issue covers platformization, a global phenomenon radically re-shaping society that emerged since the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007/08. Digital platforms gradually pervaded our lives in parallel with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, bringing the massive use of technologies, the logistics rationality, logged labor adoption, and more. The authors of this issue explore topics of platform capitalism from social reproduction to labor struggles, and from urban transformation to algorithmic governance.
 
The “Against the Day” section covers the conjuncture of the UK Labour Party and “Corbynism”—a political project consolidated around Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020.

Contributors: Daniel Arubayi, Carlotta Benvegnù, Filippo Bignami, Jelke Bosma, Fabien Brugière, Niccolò Cuppini, Niels van Doorn, Katrina Forrester, Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco, Mattia Frapporti, Paolo Gerbaudo, Jeremy Gilbert, Rafael Grohmann, Naomi C. Hanakata, Deepa Kylasam Iyer, Nelli Kampouri, Francis Kuriakose, Keir Milburn, Floriano Milesi, Eva Mos, Maurilio Pirone, Tommaso Pirone, Ben Trott, June Wang, Jamie Woodcock, Xinyue Yu