Work

Archiving labour reconceptualisations

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The smart home acts as an iteration of a recurrent socio-technical imaginary that is a fully controllable household, operatable from a distance. Problematic as it may be, the smart home does address feminist concerns with questions about automating households and the reconceptualisation of work. This elaboration is guided by the research question of how one can imagine the automation of the household with a concept of labour covering domestic, affective, precarious, and research work, and even non-work. Revisiting the archival turn in feminism, this article selects an archive of its own while following Kathi Weeks’ (2021) invitation to establish a counter-archive and ‘scale up’. With the selection of three texts, namely Serres’ ‘Thumbelina’ (2015), Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (2016/1985) and Federici’s ‘Wages Against Housework’ (1975), the goal of the archive is to (1) challenge canonical theoretical reproduction in feminist theory

Source: Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana)

Author: Nardoni, Maruška

Language: English

Topic: Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7112642439

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