Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic.

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779211066608

Jack Linchuan Qiu

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Posthuman is a social condition of humans losing control, especially to technological forces, and a cultural framing beyond Enlightenment modernity. Building on the posthuman critique, this article examines digital labour and food delivery platforms during Covid-19 in Asian contexts. The main argument is that, while reinforcing inequalities through algorithm-based discrimination and control, the pandemic also creates openings for progressive change towards the humanizing of the posthuman, through human-non-human assemblage as well as 'sticky labour'. As such, Covid-19 is more than a crisis that signifies the end of the 'old normal'. It is, more importantly, another moment when existential crisis triggers innovation in working-class network society, leading to novel discourses, practices, and networks. How and why did this happen? What are the implications for pandemic-era cultural shaping of the digital? These questions will be discussed.

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人性化后人类：数字劳动、食品配送和新人类在疫情期间的开放。

后人类是人类失去控制的社会条件，尤其是对技术力量的控制，也是启蒙运动现代性之外的文化框架。本文在人后批判的基础上，审视了新冠肺炎期间亚洲背景下的数字劳工和食品配送平台。主要论点是，在通过基于算法的歧视和控制加剧不平等的同时，疫情也为通过人类-非人类的集合以及“粘性劳动”实现后人类人性化的渐进变革创造了机会。因此，新冠肺炎不仅仅是一场标志着“旧常态”结束的危机。更重要的是，这是另一个存在危机引发工人阶级网络社会创新的时刻，导致了新的话语、实践和网络。这是怎么发生的，为什么会发生？疫情时代数字化的文化塑造有什么影响？我们将讨论这些问题。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.