THE MYTH OF FLEXIBLE WORK & MODERN COLONIALISM Don’t believe the capitalist hype Bilel, a 24-year-old young French working as an Uber Eats courier in Lyon, France, admits on camera while nervously smiling: “I devote all of my days to Uber, I don’t have a life as I live only for Uber.” This is a […]
And Suddenly They Wanted to be Regulated Big tech is watching you. Who’s watching the big tech? “EU rejects Facebook’s proposal for online regulation” reads the headline of a Financial Times piece[1], published shortly after Facebook’s CEO meeting with EU executives in Brussels on February 17. In recent years, and especially after the sweeping GDPR
Games as a Platform It’s the end of the games as we know them, and I’m feeling [?] Mainstream video-games have long abolished their premium product aspect in favour of a more versatile feature: service. Software-as-a-Service, aka SaaS, is the umbrella under which video-games’ new era shone. From World of Warcraft to Fortnite, games tend
Gris and the problems of definitions Many scholars have tried to frame what’s a game or, rather, define the essential components of a game. Perhaps one of the most memorable ones comes from Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman: A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results