Abstract
The nature of work has developed dramatically over recent decades. Often characterized as a shift from fordism to post-fordism, these changes have dissolved the old certainties of working life, switching jobs for life with precarious positions, and material production with the seeming immateriality of knowledge work. Places like Amager, still a home to some industries, are now left hosting a multiplicity of post-industrial activities. A field trip to Amager reveals a complex picture of former industrial spaces being inhabited by artists creating colourful knitwear, flea markets selling outdoor furniture, judo schools, the gigantic office of Telia, an airport and hotels specializing in corporate functions. Our proposal is to create an audio paper as a temporary fluid factory; a production of production in sound. This audio paper does not simply represent the production process but actually enters into it, using Amager as the infrastructure and node of connection. We explore the new forms of labour facilitated by new and old infrastructures. This paper explores questions about our changing conceptions of infrastructure, expanding notions of place, the location and nature of a workforce, openings of new domains for exploitation, and what is the nature of work itself.
Academic Audio paper
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https://soundcloud.com/seismograf/macon-holt-katrine-pram-nielsen-a-sound-factory-on-amager-from-odesk-to-asmr
Keywords
Amager
ASMR
Augé
digital work
Post-fordism
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Mister Motif (2014) Ordinary Day (recordings of the sound of the ODesk worker Mister Motif’s work in his home in Greece).
Noel, C. (2014) Happy 1st Anniversary. 5 Binaural ASMR Triggers. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaF5Vt7tNH4. Accessed 13/09/2015.
30. august 2016
https://doi.org/10.48233/seismograf1609