Control and Resistance in Automated Shops: Retail Transparency, Deep Learning, and Digital Refusal

IF 2.7 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Antipode Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI:10.1111/anti.13093
Thomas Dekeyser, Casey R. Lynch
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Through the enrolment of big data, deep learning, sensor fusion, and computer vision technologies, Amazon Go and similar shops pursue the automated management of retail subjects, goods, and transactions. Tracing the logics of automated shop technology, the paper makes two contributions. First, it proposes a theory of “retail transparency” to attend to how automated shops reimagine space as a series of pockets of excess (actions that escape circuits of capitalist valuation) to be countered through acts of making-transparent (datafication for integration into digital systems of control). Retail transparency is underpinned by interventions aimed at perceiving, incorporating, and productivising excess. Second, we argue that logics of deep learning raise important challenges to traditional conceptions of resistance in digital geographies, as these tend to rely on a celebration or cultivation of excess. Instead, we offer a speculative reflection outlining a politics of “circuit-breaking” which refuses to engage algorithmic logics on their own terms.

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自动化商店中的控制与抵制:零售透明度、深度学习和数字拒绝
通过大数据、深度学习、传感器融合、计算机视觉等技术的应用,Amazon Go等店铺追求零售主体、商品、交易的自动化管理。通过对自动化车间技术的逻辑追溯,本文做出了两个贡献。首先,它提出了一个“零售透明度”理论,以关注自动化商店如何将空间重新想象为一系列过剩的口袋(逃避资本主义估值回路的行为),并通过使其透明化(整合到数字控制系统的数据化)来应对。零售透明度的基础是旨在感知、整合和生产过剩的干预措施。其次,我们认为深度学习的逻辑对数字地理学中传统的抵抗概念提出了重要的挑战,因为这些概念往往依赖于对过度的庆祝或培养。相反,我们提供了一个思辨的反思,概述了一种“断路”的政治,它拒绝以自己的方式参与算法逻辑。
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期刊介绍: Antipode has published dissenting scholarship that explores and utilizes key geographical ideas like space, scale, place, borders and landscape. It aims to challenge dominant and orthodox views of the world through debate, scholarship and politically-committed research, creating new spaces and envisioning new futures. Antipode welcomes the infusion of new ideas and the shaking up of old positions, without being committed to just one view of radical analysis or politics.
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