Generalized Burniat type surfaces and Bagnera-de Franchis varieties

In this article we construct three new families of surfaces of general type with p_g = q = 0,K^2 = 6, and seven new families of surfaces of general type with p_g = q = 1, K^2 = 6, realizing 10 new fundamental groups. We also show that these families correspond to pairwise distinct irreducible connected components of the Gieseker moduli space of surfaces of general type. We achieve this using two different main ingredients. First we introduce a new class of surfaces, called generalized Burniat type surfaces, and we completely classify them (and the connected com- ponents of the moduli space containing them). Second, we introduce the notion of Bagnera-de Franchis varieties: these are the free quotients of an Abelian variety by a cyclic group (not consisting only of translations). For these we develop some basic results.Comment: 45 pages, 6 tables, two MAGMA scripts; v2: minor changes. To appear in Kodaira Centennial issue of Journal of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Toky

Circulating through the Pipeline. Algorithmic Subjectivities and Mobile Struggles

We are living within a transformation that has been variously labelled as industrial revolution 4.0, platform economy, digital capitalism. Nevertheless, this change is still mainly conceptualized through the vocabulary of factory system. In this article we aim to contribute to the development of an emerging framework on the 'new capitalism' without any nostalgia for the past by exploring some of its potential interpretative categories (pipeline, algorithmic subjectivities, mobile struggles), based in particular on its spatial configurations and on the production of living labour' subjectivities. Indeed, we are witnessing not simply a wave of technological innovation but a more general transformation of the forms of capitalist valorisation which rely on the role played by spaces and social cooperation. These changes do not affect only spatialities but also the subjective forms of living labour, including his/her practices of organization and struggle