Article: The Worker as Futurist Project: Interview with Max Haiven about Writing with Amazon Workers as Practice of Radical Imagination
Abstract
The interview with Max Haiven focuses on resistance practices in the delivery
market and the project
The Worker as Futurist. It also draws attention to the fact
that Amazon, as the world’s largest provider of media such as books and films,
works significantly on the image of delivery and also shapes the socio-political fu-
ture in the image of logistics. In this conversation, Haiven and the volume’s co-
editors discuss how Amazon, as a global corporate actor, uses specific practices
and aesthetics to hijack the power of the imagination in order to shape the future
of delivery and logistics. Against this background, Haiven introduces the project
The Worker as Futurist, in which Amazon workers write and publish speculative
fiction stories. Working in the tradition of workers’ fiction, Haiven and his collab-
orators work against the images with which Amazon closes off a variety of fu-
tures.
Preferred Citation
BibTex
Haiven, Max; Bareikytė, Miglė; Bee, Julia: The Worker as Futurist Project: Interview with Max Haiven about Writing with Amazon Workers as Practice of Radical Imagination. In: Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, Jg. 24 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 121-133. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23303.
@ARTICLE{Haiven2024,
author = {Haiven, Max and Bareikytė, Miglė and Bee, Julia},
title = {The Worker as Futurist Project: Interview with Max Haiven about Writing with Amazon Workers as Practice of Radical Imagination},
year = 2024,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23303}",
editor = {Bareikytė, Miglė and Bee, Julia},
volume = 24,
address = {Siegen},
journal = {Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften},
number = 2,
pages = {121--133},
}
author = {Haiven, Max and Bareikytė, Miglė and Bee, Julia},
title = {The Worker as Futurist Project: Interview with Max Haiven about Writing with Amazon Workers as Practice of Radical Imagination},
year = 2024,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23303}",
editor = {Bareikytė, Miglė and Bee, Julia},
volume = 24,
address = {Siegen},
journal = {Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften},
number = 2,
pages = {121--133},
}
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