Into The Black Box

INTO THE BLACK BOX is a collective project of trans-disciplinary research promoted by activists and scholars. Planetary logistics, platforms, digital transformations, labour organisation/struggles, and urbanisation processes are the main lenses through which INTO THE BLACK BOX elaborates a critical analysis and interpretation of contemporary social, economic, and political dynamics.

NICCOLÒ CUPPINI is a researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. He collaborates with many international projects in Africa, Latin America and Japan and works in the Horizon 2020 project PLUS (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces). His research focuses on the intersection between history of political thought, geography, critical logistics and urban studies. He collaborates with the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, the journal Scienza&Politica, the research collective INTO THE BLACK BOX.

MATTIA FRAPPORTI is Post-Doc Fellow in ‚Platform Economy and the new frontiers of urban logistics: genealogies and critics‘ at University of Bologna within the Horizon2020 PLUS project (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces). His focuses are on the process of European Integration, the politics of infrastructures, critical logistics and the logistics genealogies. It is part of a research group on logistics called INTO THE BLACK BOX and on the journal Zapruder.

MAURILIO PIRONE is Post-Doc Fellow in ‚Labour discipline and new processes of organizing in the platform economy‘ within the Horizon2020 PLUS project (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces). He participates in the INTO THE BLACK BOX project and is part of the editorial board of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Journal. His research interests include platform capitalism, new forms of metropolitan unionism, the impact of digital technologies on the discipline and organisation of labour, logistics and social movements.