<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all, am looking incredibly forward to the conference in November. <br><br>I'll be presenting on Wages For Facebook, a project I developed during a fellowship at <a href="http://eyebeam.org/projects/wages-for-facebook">Eyebeam</a> which has had a fascinating public life ever since its <a href="http://wagesforfacebook.com">manifesto</a> circulated online in January 2014. Immediately the text was graced with over 20,000 views (and counting) and rapidly and
internationally debated—clearly touching a collective nerve and
beginning a broader public conversation about worker's rights and the
very nature of <span class="">labor</span>, as well as the politics of its refusal, in our <span class="">digital</span> age. <br>
<br>Like past projects I have worked on the Wages For Facebook campaign tries to carefully navigate
disciplines of art and activism. The manifesto text itself builds directly on a brilliant text written by Silvia Federici for the Wages For Housework campaign in the 1970s, chosen to illustrate the repetition of capitalism's exploitative mechanisms where affective labor is concerned, but also to offer an approachable, feminist, Marxist foundation upon which to critique technology and social media.<br><br>Engendering much public debate, Wages For Facebook has been frequently discussed on message boards, social media platforms,
mainstream, left and art press and is being taught and argued about at universities across disciplines of geography, cultural studies, anthropology, art, public health, labor studies, communications and more (an excellent recent example <a href="http://blackwoodgallery.ca/events/2014/ReadingGroup.html">here</a>). At the conference I'll be sharing Wages For Facebook's many unexpected outcomes and key concerns as well as posing questions about the relationship between artistic <span class="">imaginaries</span> and political realities—a long-term interest in my work. Looking forward.<br><br></div><div>–Laurel<br></div><div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">- - - - - - - - -<br><div><br><a href="http://www.laurelptak.com" target="_blank">Laurel Ptak</a><br><br>Director, <a href="http://www.trianglenetwork.org/partners" target="_blank">Triangle</a> NYC<br>Part-Time Faculty, <a href="http://newschool.edu/" target="_blank">The New School</a><br>Idealist, <a href="http://wagesforfacebook.com/" target="_blank">Wages For Facebook</a><br></div><div><div>
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