{"id":770,"date":"2017-02-22T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=770"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:01:19","slug":"politics-after-poststructuralism-seminar-series-seminar-with-dr-nick-srnicek-23-february-5pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/02\/22\/politics-after-poststructuralism-seminar-series-seminar-with-dr-nick-srnicek-23-february-5pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics after Poststructuralism Seminar Series &#8211; seminar with Dr Nick Srnicek &#8211; 23 February, 5pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS CAUSED BY WEATHER*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Nick Srnicek (Lecturer in International Political Economy, City University of London)<br \/>\nTitle: &#8216;Platform Capitalism\u2019<br \/>\nPolitics after Poststructuralism Seminar Series<br \/>\nVenue: Keynes seminar room 17<br \/>\nDate and Time: 23 February 2017, 5pm<\/p>\n<p>Lecturer in International Political Economy, Nick Srnicek co-authored with Alex Williams \u00a0#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics \u200b(2013), \u200bInventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015), and the recently published Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016). His current research is on anti-work politics and social reproduction, and how the two separate areas can be fit together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Platform Capitalism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of platform capitalism. This talk critically examines these new business forms, showing how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS CAUSED BY WEATHER* Dr Nick Srnicek (Lecturer in International Political Economy, City University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/02\/22\/politics-after-poststructuralism-seminar-series-seminar-with-dr-nick-srnicek-23-february-5pm\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131003,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}