不死劳动力和生产工具:僵尸、富士康和零工经济

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Critique Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI:10.1353/cul.2023.0025

Brynnar Swenson

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摘要:僵尸经常被用作工业生产和大众消费的隐喻，但对僵尸的旧解释是产业工人或意识形态上受蒙蔽的消费者，并不能充分解释为什么僵尸末日吸引了我们今天的想象力。本文分析了中国和美国在过去十年中出现的生产方式和劳动形式。具体来说，它讨论了富士康为生产现代电子产品而开发的生产形式，以及基于应用程序的劳动力，如Uber/Lyft，以便为分析我们当代的经济焦虑提供一个陪衬。我认为马克思在工业生产中所定位的“死亡”劳动在过去的四十年中并没有简单地被“外包”:它已经转化为“不死”劳动，并以一种新的、幽灵的形式回归。

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Undead Labor and Instruments of Production: Zombies, Foxconn, and the Gig Economy

Abstract:The zombie has often been used as a metaphor for industrial production and mass consumption, but older interpretations of zombies as industrial workers or ideologically duped consumers do not adequately explain why the zombie apocalypse has captured our imagination today. This essay analyzes modes of production and forms of labor that emerged over the last decade in China and the United States. Specifically, it discusses the form of production Foxconn developed to produce modern electronics, and application-based labor such as Uber/Lyft, in order to provide a foil for an analysis of our contemporary economic anxieties. I argue that the "dead" labor Marx locates in industrial production has not simply been "outsourced" over the last forty years: it has been transformed into "undead" labor and has returned in a new, spectral form.

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期刊介绍： Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.