In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround

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

Platformization’s Elsewheres: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Platform Economy

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

Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities

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

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