PLATFORM URBANISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

PLATFORM URBANISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS discusses the fundamental transformation of urban space through platform technologies.

By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life—from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems.

With contributions by Ross Exo Adams, Tom Avermaete, Lucia Babina, Jochen Becker, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ofri Cnaani, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Peggy Deamer, Fairwork Project, Pedro Gadanho, Benjamin Gerdes, Mark Graham, Stephen Graham, Orit Halpern, Owen Hatherley, Gabu Heindl, Leo Hollis, Into the Black Box, Andreas Kofler, Bernadette Krejs, Maros Krivy, Peter Lang, Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest, Jonathan Massey, Sandro Mezzadra, Susan Moore and Scott Rodgers, Louis Moreno, Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann, Edgar Pieterse, Vyjayanthi Rao, Jathan Sadowski, Saskia Sassen, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Slutty Urbanism, Douglas Spencer, Matthew Stewart, Ravi Sundaram, Tiziana Terranova, This Machine Kills, Ignacio Valero, Matias Viegener, Alan Wiig, and others.

 

Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer (eds.)Platform Urbanism and Its DiscontentsRotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2021

ISBN 978-94-6208-615-9  design: Bueronardin | English | 480 pages | illustrated (125 full colour)

CONTENTS

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents (PDF)

ACCESS IS THE NEW CAPITAL

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
in Conversation with Sandro Mezzadra

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Decolonial Platform Urbanism

Louis Moreno
The Presence of the Past in the Platform, or, the Cultural Logic of Absolute Rent

Benjamin Gerdes
Trending toward Teargas

Peggy Deamer
Cooperatives, Platforms and Architecture

Peter Lang
Access Platform
Thinking Access
Making Access

CITY ON DEMAND?

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
in Conversation with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

Alan Wiig
Platform Urbanism during a Pandemic: Three Vignettes

Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore
#saveourcinema
On Our Way!
Hi, My Name is Charlotte
Solidarity and Samosas
I Will Delete You

This Machine Kills
The Final Phase of Platform Urbanism: A Podcast by This Machine Kills

Leo Hollis
The A to Z of Platform Urbanism

Maros Krivý
Platform Urbanism and Sociotechnical Imaginaries
Platform: Taking the Metaphor Seriously
Socialist Cybernetics

THE COLLAPSE OF SCALE

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
in Conversation with Stephen Graham

Ross Exo Adams
On Breath

Pedro Gadanho
Flatforms
Stay Home Matrix
Digitally-Aided De-Growth

Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
Homes of the Internet

Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann
Against Platform Non-Transparency: A Politics of Resolution for Renegade Activism

THE PLATFORM IS MY BOYFRIEND

Slutty Urbanism
Glitches from the Pandemic – Three-Act Play

Ofri Cnaani
Measures of Closeness: The Contactless Condition

Lucia Babina
Glorious Times

Andreas Kofler
Death as Timeline Event

Ignacio Valero
The Tears of Freud: (Un)Heimlich COVID, Vectorialist Techno-Feudal Platform Overlords, Emotariat Automata

MONUMENTS OF CIRCULATION – ‘I’ IS EVERYWHERE

Tom Avermaete
The Places, Pulses and People of Platform Urbanism

Bernadette Krejs
Ideals of the Home

Jochen Becker
The City as Data Factory: Notes on Tech Urbanism

Douglas Spencer
Bearing Capital: Platforms, Performance and Personification

Owen Hatherley
On Owning a ‘Burner’
Bloggers Rest Home
Obsessed with Its Own Image
In the Flotation Tank
The Shielding List

DATA IS A RELATION NOT A PROPERTY

Tiziana Terranova
In the Shadow of Platform Urbanism: Beyond Utility and Towards the Institutionalisation of Technosocial Desires

Matthew Stewart
Beyond the Mountain Lies Another
Animated Monsters, Vampiric Platforms
Calculating Machines

Into the Black Box Collective
From Urban to Platform (and Return): Emerging Time-Spaces

Daniel Cardoso Llach
Unsettling Placelessness

Matias Viegener
No Fate but What We Make

Ravi Sundaram
Paper Histories and Bio-Political Subjects?

THE FUTURE IS PUBLIC

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
in Conversation with Saskia Sassen

Vyjayanthi Rao
2020: Platform Is Everywhere
Platform is Public: Citizen Distribution Systems
Manifestations
Maintenance Art: Museum as Pantry

Jonathan Massey
Learning to Live Together

Gabu Heindl
Infrastructure, Not Platform
Intergenerational Alliances
Intersectional Solidarity in Contemporary Housing

Fairwork Project
This Is Not A Platform

Edgar Pieterse
Inhabitation of Tensions
Learning through Unintended Consequences
Activating Potential

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