Full Description
This collection offers the first up-to-date, book-length, academic study of Amazon. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher in the humanities and social sciences in the future looking to study not only Amazon, but also other capitalist platform systems, as well as the huge array of social, political, economic and cultural issues that they implicate.
Amazon is too complex and multi-faceted a platform for any individual researcher to cover. Structuring the book as an edited collection allows the editors to incorporate a broad range of expertise, critical insight, and methodological depth adequate to the task of being the first comprehensive book to critically analyze Amazon as a technology platform.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Political Economy of Amazon
Lina Khan, "Amazon's Anti-Trust Paradox" [Reprint]
Ulysses Pascal, "Amazon 1-Click and the Value of Broken Infrastructure"
Nikolaus Poechhacker and Eva-Maria Nyckel, "The Logistics of Probability: Anticipatory Shipping and the Production of Markets" [Reprint]
Alessandro Delfanti, "Amazonian Fulfillment: Machinic Dispossession and Augmented Despotism"
Practices of Resistance
Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant, "Platforms, Resistance, Organizing"
xtine burrough, "Disrupting Work with Play on Mturk.com: A Visual Essay"
Lilly Irani, "Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers: The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk" [Reprint]
Amazon and Culture
David Arditi, "Unending Consumption: A Prime Example"
Lisa Daily, "Amazon Eats Whole Foods"
Maillim Santiago, "Virtuous Viewing and Amazon Studios"
Environmental Impact
Brett Hutchins, Libby Lester, Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller, and Whitney Monaghan, "Quick and Slow Violence: The Age of Billionaire Biodiversity."
Emily West, "Decoding Amazon's Climate Pledge: Public Relations and the Platformization of Governance"
Patrick Brodie and Paul O'Neill, "Confronting the Regionalism of Amazon Web Services"
Appendix
Hiba Ali and Nina Sarnelle, "Art and Action"
List of Contributors
Index
About the Editors
