... labor, and on theorizing “nonindustrial” informational work of symbol makers and symbol users (a.k.a. “immaterial labor,” “no-collar workers,” “knowledge workers,” “creative labor,” or “mental labor”). © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Feminism Livia Tenzer When I was working...

... in a possibly futile attempt to reckon visuality beyond all reckoning and thus glimpse its incorrigible capture of nearly All. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 visuality image immateriality Sight, the king of the senses, the line of vision down the barrel of a gun. Pleasure or torture...

.... or the avant- garde of new Knowledge Class and Immaterial Labor configurations of In spite...

... it looms the entire history of the labor movement and its heretical wing, Italian workerism (operaismo), which rethought Marxism in light of the workers’ struggles (strikes and sabotage) of the 1960s and 1970s. For the most part, though, it looks forward. Abstract intelligence and immaterial signs...

..., were selected by evolution or by God to perform material rather than immaterial labor is not new; this view is as old as class-divided soci- eties. But in an epoch in which the chances of obtaining a good working- class job have sharply...

..., and the Protestant relation to God is defined by the individual freedom to marry rather than by obedience to the community. In the newly formed Protestant social relations, the right relation to the (immaterial) spiritual world...

... to explicate the labor factor that makes up this creative economy. One of the most important theoretical works on the concept is Mau- rizio Lazzarato’s “Immaterial Labor,” in which he argues that the old dichotomy between manual/material and mental/immaterial labor has failed...

.... In particular, to say that information is a disembodied and immaterial form casts an unfl attering light on what might be called “informational cultures”—that is, cultural milieus that foreground the interplay of information technolo- gies (logarithmic data compression, information architecture, communica...

..., as the global division of immaterial labor depresses the writer’s wage toward the vanishing point), we should not be surprised to encounter the mask of anonymity deployed for malevolent purposes. Anomie shouldn’t be possible in a hyperconnected world, but the speed and scale of these mediations bring collapse...

... of the immaterial constitution of a whole way of life. Thus, we see that software abstraction is not simply a method to mentally and ideally conceive of a software system; it also functions as a real abstraction, something that is paradoxically both ideal and con- crete, expressing itself in concrete...

... contingencies, what constituencies, what ontologies are of tactical use in the struggle for a life worth living? The question takes this form in a world rendered tactical, in a social context that Matteo Pasquinelli describes with the phrase “immaterial civil war” 20 and, I must add, so as not to elide forms...

..., consciousness, subject, and so forth. These concepts inevitably treat the body as a vessel or container for this immaterial substance and reinforce a false opposition between interiority and exteriority. Nonetheless, Nancy does not want to do away with the notion of soul. In response to this problem...

... of immaterial labor—concerned with cultural, affective, and informational production—which they argue has become “hegemonic in qualitative terms,” meaning today all labor and society “have to informationalize, become intelligent, become communicative, become affective.” 13 But alongside the universalizing...

... known to geography. Grass rock skin bits of bone become in and of themselves ornaments of unity. Immaterial insignia. So what sears the mind to order need not subtract from the manifold of space, cast love awry...

... to this lacuna, Douglas Kahn’s Earth Sound, Earth Signal attunes to the phenomenal properties of sound as energy, especially as emergent in and through perception. Concerned with addressing “a materiality often assumed to be immaterial” (17), Kahn engages the specificity of the physicality of energy in its...

... and formlessness—how the one is conditional on the other and how close the mobility, flexibility, and self-possession associated with form are to the precarity and burdened individuality of formlessness; it is the need to externalize and recuperate this proximity that animates the fantasies of immateriality...

..., this move overemphasizes warfare expenditures, keep- ing them from being dwarfed by the size of the national budget. A third answer may play up the immaterial nature of the result. Just as freedom cannot be measured in its giving, neither...

... will to manage bodies, identities, and differences for capital — for the extraction of value in increasingly abstract and immaterial ways. We talked about collaboration: Could we write on one another’s documents? (Yes.) Did we have to ask permission? (No.) Could we preserve the competing voices...

... of the codes of bad affect, enabling us to free them from the apoliticized cages of pathology and the private.” 25 Rather than resisting the unbodied materiality of indigeneity, Belcourt inhabits the immateriality of Indigenous queer love as a way to remake the world through fluidity, collapse, heartbreak...

... or immaterial labor encompasses the laboring of calculation for technical solutions and the production and consumption of politically branded opin- ion about population capacities for life and death. The latter even is put to work in producing a division...