Lateral (Dec 2021)

Editors’ Introduction: Materializing Immaterial Labor in Cultural Studies

  • Robert F. Carley,
  • Stefanie A. Jones,
  • Eero Laine,
  • Chris Alen Sula

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25158/L10.2.1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2

Abstract

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This introduction frames the six original articles in this issue and the forum on "Corona A(e)ffects: Radical Affectivities of Dissent and Hope" around the concept of immaterial labor. Two full years into a pandemic that has uprooted place-based work for many, and forced even more indoors, away from public spaces, and onto screens, we reflect on the very material effects of present-day immaterial and emotional labor.

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