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online access Nairobi Durabilities in the age of disruption This essay engages with the theme of infrastructural disruption from the perspective of a French deep-sea cable-repair ship (flying under a flag of convenience) docked in Cape Town’s harbor. This vessel sails both the Atlantic and Indian coasts of Africa to fix malfunctions and ruptures in … Read moreDurabilities in the age of disruption
online access Nairobi Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition Karpowership’s large floating vessels provide electricity to millions of people in Africa’s coastal urban centers. Both the technology choice and the business practices of the family-run company are controversial. Not only do the ships use highly polluting heavy fuels, but there are … Read moreCoastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition
online access Tokyo The incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan This article offers a two-decade overview of digital payments in Japan, with a focus on the role of convenience stores in the rollout of new payment systems. The aim is both to follow the recent … Read moreThe incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan
online access Tokyo In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing convenience is an affordance and an enclosure; our logistical … Read moreIn/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround
online access Tokyo Platformization’s Elsewheres: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Platform Economy Platformization’s elsewheres refers to other locations and places where platformization as a process takes place. This article focuses on the franchised Japanese convenience store as a particularly salient site from which to understand platformization in Japan. It is also crucial for thinking the … Read morePlatformization’s Elsewheres: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Platform Economy
online access Nairobi Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities Concerned with financialized extraction, the exploitation of precarious workers and racialized violence, critical scholars call for greater attention to the coloniality of financial technology (fintech) expansion in Africa. In this article, we echo the utility in foregrounding coloniality, … Read moreFintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities
General Related Publications Beverungen, A. (2021). Remote Control: Algorithmic Management of Circulation at Amazon. In Marcus Burkhardt, Mary Shnayien, & Katja Grashöfer (Eds.), Explorations in Digital Cultures. meson press. https://explorations.meson.press/chapters/remote-control/Beverungen, A. & Florian, S. (2017). Computing the City. The Fibreculture Journal, 29, 1–9. https://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-29-fcj-212-computing-the-city/Cirolia, L. R., Sitas, R., Pollio, A., Sebarenzi, A. G., & Guma, … Read moreRelated Publications