From one of the the researchers Xenia: “One of my favourite projects this past year has been the Worker as Futurist project where Max, Graeme and I tried coaxing the science fictional elements of the amazon corporation through the workers own collective psyche by analyzing together a series of science fiction films and programs. Our approach was informed by the Worker's Inquiry method: a radical methodology that emerged in Northern Italy in the 1960s and offered both workers and intellectuals an ant’s-eye view of capitalism while revealing workers’ power. The goal of this action research was to see how the exploitative machinations of capitalism were not the ingenious orchestrations of the powerful but, in fact, the desperate, rear-guard attempt by capital writ large to contain and combat new forms of worker militancy. yesterday the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) published our findings and you could read about it here. The project is part of RiVAL: the ReImagining Value Action Lab at Lakehead University.”
Read here it’s fascinating, lots of Star Trek lol: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-amazon-the-borg-we-asked-their-workers/