On domestic fantasies and anti-work politics: a feminist history of complicating automation

Graziano, Valeria and Trogal, Kim (2021) On domestic fantasies and anti-work politics: a feminist history of complicating automation. Theory and Event. ISSN 1092-311X (In Press)

Creators:
Graziano, Valeria and Trogal, Kim
Description/Abstract:

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work, showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend itself to an anti-work rather than post-work politics. The second focuses on both historical and contemporary feminist critiques of domestic automation to situate the post-work condition in this longer lineage. In the final section, we sketch the contours of a distinctly feminist anti-work imaginary drawing on Dolores Hayden’s work on collective domestic settlements and Rachel Maine’s work on amateur uses and repurposing of obsolete technologies in the name of a politics of pleasure.

Item Type:
Article
Date:
5 January 2021
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
anti-work, domestic technology, domestic labour, feminist, social reproduction
Schools:
School of Architecture & Design
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Depositing User:
Dr Kim Trogal
Date Deposited:
09 Mar 2021 17:06
Last Modified:
05 Mar 2022 04:31
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ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3171-5442
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5580

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