Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience

The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What are the absences, the residues, the invisibilised practices and actors of technoscience’s ontological politics? The paper interrogates this form of politics, argues for the radical democratisation of technoscience and explores how it is possible to pose questions of justice without reducing the material to the social. It concludes with a discussion of the idea of crafting alternative ontologies as commitment to a material organisation of justice

The two endings of the precarious movement

Papadopoulos, D. (2017). . In E. Armano, A. Bove, & A. Murgia (Eds.), Mapping precariousness, labour insecurity and uncertain livelihoods: Subjectivities and resistance (pp. 137-148). : Routledge. [ISBN:

Generation M. Matter, Makers, Microbiomes: Compost for Gaia

Language, information and the virtual space were distinctive features of the previous generation. Craft, matter and the fusion of the digital and the material are defining generation M, the first generation of the 21st century.El lenguaje, la información y el espacio virtual fueron las características distintivas de la generación anterior. La creación, la materia y la fusión de lo digital y lo material son los elementos que definen a la generación M, la primera generación del siglo XXI. Este ensayo explora las implicaciones materiales, sociales y ecológicas de estas transformaciones, y argumentan por un posthumanismo autónomo y alter-ontológico: compostar las vidas y ecologías de lo cotidiano para nutrir mundos justos en los que se pueda vivir

Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics

The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts that emerge from the friction of the prevalent cultures of valuation and the extensive embodiment of value production and argues that biofinancialisation alters the very material infrastructure of bodies and forms of life. What is the autonomy of politics when biofinance becomes molecularised in code and in matter

Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity

In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning political battle after political battle, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had come to an end. Ironically this was also the moment that precarity as a concept became widely known in popular opinion, media commentary and academia. This paper focuses on the movement of the precarious from its inception in the early 2000s to its decline in 2008 and its reappearance in response to the economic crisis through the widespread mobilizations for “real democracy” between 2008 and 2014. Drawing from our experience as participants in the movement of the precarious, and theoretical discussions that have shaped the politics of the movement, the paper adopts a retrospective approach to investigate the metamorphoses of a consciousness of precarity and of the underlying organizing practices that lead to its demise and its subsequent incarnations. It reconstructs precarity as theory in action than existed only through the organizational ontologies of the movement of the precarious