[Themaintainers] From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes

Mon Mar 30 16:11:52 EDT 2020

Along these lines of 'essential work'--here's a call for applications for little pots of money for research groups to start up (Andy, perhaps to do your oral history project?):

Dear All:

Based on the outpouring of interest from the research community and our mission to advance convergence science for the benefit of humanity, CONVERGE is offering $1,000 awards to those who wish to launch COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research.

CONVERGE and the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network will fund up to 30 COVID-19 Working Groups focused on issues and innovations in methods, ethics, and empirical areas of inquiry. Please see the Working Groups webpage (https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/working-groups) for specific examples and requirements. Applications will be accepted between April 4 and April 13, 2020. Funding announcements for Working Groups will be made by April 17, 2020.

We will hold a CONVERGE Virtual Forum on Friday, April 3, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. MDT. (Register here: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodu-vpzMpgMGE3IrftwLJ0qJ8hlJ7tA)

During this forum, researchers will have the opportunity to share ideas for Working Groups while connecting with one another. We will also discuss the Working Group application requirements and begin the process of prioritizing areas of pressing societal and scientific concern. If you would like to be added to the agenda to discuss a Working Group or to ask about the application process, please email us at converge at colorado.edu<mailto:converge at colorado.edu?subject=Working%20Group%20Question>.

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Thank you for the work that you are doing, and know that our hearts and minds are with you. Please remember to take care of yourself and others during this time of great uncertainty.

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University of Colorado Boulder

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Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes

I’ve been daydreaming about a distributed oral history/interview project, consisting of interviews with “essential” workers to document their experiences. One could imagine at least 3 categories of interview subjects: those deemed essential before COVID19; those who’ve been recategorized (like my friends at my school’s IT help desk and our local wine & liquor store); and those not deemed essential by the state, but appear so in the eyes of the researcher. Non wage domestic labor is one clear example of the third category...

Andy

On Mar 30, 2020, at 3:42 AM, Dorothy Howard <dhoward at ucsd.edu> wrote:

I think the concept of "frontlines" workers (COVID-19 + evocation of wartime measures) and the legal designation of "essential services" is fraught but essentially has to do with the social processes of valuing infrastructural labor. In the context of free and open source software and other infrastructural labor that involves voluntary processes or volunteer work, maintenance workers doing essential things to keep infrastructure like software going are excluded from the legal protections and recognition of the designation of being "essential", yet are still less visible to different publics who are suddenly recognizing "essential labor" and care workers as underrecognized occupations or bringing them to the center of attention about where care and respect and risk should be allocated in society. When we evoke the term essential services as a way of recognizing often invisibilized labor, my question is who does this designation still exclude and how can resources(ing) follow recognition?

With care,

Dorothy

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:31 PM Ishi Crew <mediaentropy at gmail.com<mailto:mediaentropy at gmail.com>> wrote:
I've seen this talk (must be alot of work to transcribe it; and i'm sort of writing something on this topic, and am aware of graeber's views )

In my area we have something we call the 'virus' (or the V (for victory)  I r U.S.   --- one for all   ).

How many 'maintainers' are essential workers and how many are innessential?  I have seen some suggestions that some anthropologists, economists, fashion models, wine tasters, McDonald's hamburger cooks and cleaners, musicians and mathematicians and artists, and museum curators and securty guards, and web ad programmers,  are inessential.    Or perhaps they are the 'rare' essence of the universe.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:54 AM Su <su at generis.name<mailto:su at generis.name>> wrote:
Hi, all. Long-time listener, blah blah. Lee et al., I'm @TopLeftBrick
on Twitter *waves* We've had a little contact over the years, I've
been lurking here since pretty much the beginning and uh, have a LOT
of free time to catch up on lists lately because Reasons.

Anyway, in case anyone was interested or wanted an easier way to grab
a quote I put up a transcript of this talk the other day at
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/
It's…kinda of the moment right now.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:51 PM Camille E Acey <connect at camilleacey.com<mailto:connect at camilleacey.com>> wrote:
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