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Workplace
Editors Nick Axel, Albert Ferré, Nikolaus Hirsch, Megan Marin
Contributors FICTILIS, Denisse Vega de Santiago, Dank Lloyd Wright, Andreas Petrossiants, Marianna Janowicz, Alberte Lauridsen, Nick Srnicek, Helen Hester, Kim Gurney, Samiha Meem, and more…

Over the past five hundred years, two hundred years, one hundred years, thirty years, ten years, year, labor has changed. The way we work—the things we do, the ways and places we do them, who and what we do them with—has transformed. In parallel, so has our understanding of the world, of the city, of architecture, perhaps of life.

Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research project Catching Up With Life.

 

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Labor Unsettlement
David Eugin Moon and Nahyun Hwang
Settlement Many explicate that labor is constructed through settlement, and perhaps the most readily visible and visiblized histories of work, and ...
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Performing Automation
Kelly Pendergrast
Interior, pizza arcade. Sioux Falls, 1995 or thereabouts. Family groups and clusters of post-soccer-practice tweens sit around napkin-strewn table...
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Laboring for Home: Working to Stay, Working to Move
Golnar Abbasi and Arvand Pourabbasi
In the context of contemporary forms of labor, “production” is often discussed and glamorized. But what is overlooked is the exhaustion that follows i...
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Post Everything
Samiha Meem
“Oh, that’s definitely a post.” I didn’t agree, but I posted it anyways. Not because it was done (it wasn’t), but because I was finished. * Today we...
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The Mogul, His Meerkat, and the Meerkat’s Second Life
Kim Gurney
Scene 1: Fantasy Cities I have no idea where I am. The landscape for some time now has looked like a non-place; as unremarkable and replicable as a...
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Shelter Against Communism
Nick Srnicek and Helen Hester
Women, War, and Work While housing has long been intimately connected with capitalism via speculative finance, mortgage debt, and property developm...
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Slippages, Spillages, and Divides
Marianna Janowicz and Alberte Lauridsen
During the strictest Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK, the continued labor of waste collection workers and supermarket delivery drivers allowed other part...
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The Art of Mutual Aid
Andreas Petrossiants
And if the wreckage of this inheritance will not be complete; if notwithstanding the crimes committed during this “civilized” war, we may still be su...
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We Could All Be Less Complicit
Dank Lloyd Wright
From myriad sources, including the lived experience of our own lives, we know how deeply problematic practices of labor sourcing, organizing, and regu...
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The Circus of Essential Work
Denisse Vega de Santiago
Oppressed peoples are always asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. —Audre Lorde[footnote Audre Lorde...
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Tracing the Line, or, the Promissory Politics of Climate Change
FICTILIS
Delivery Lines: Amazon’s Supply Chain In 2019 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a critical articulation about contemporary capitalism, akin to Vanderbilt’...
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Editorial
Megan Marin, Nikolaus Hirsch, Albert Ferré, and Nick Axel
Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research pr...
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Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research project Catching Up With Life.

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