This is fascism in action. Fascism is not a single event, nor is it a binary yes/no, but this is undeniably what it looks like.

The drone that murdered aid workers in Palestine was manufactured by Elbit systems. That's the blacklisted Israeli weapons company Labor awarded a $917 million weapons contract to in February this year. Is giving Elbit systems nearly $1bn of public money 'full accountability'?

I am transcribing research interviews and noticed that everyone I've spoken to has a kid occasionally squealing in the background.

Anyway, a dozen interviews deep I only just realised it's MY kid... 🫠

Sociologist Randa Abdel-Fattah says there are journalists who share their grievances with media coverage of Gaza in private, but are too scared to speak out in public.

She says that’s no longer acceptable.

Watch The Big Picture podcast: youtu.be/Cu9A9sNToK4

Wonderful to hear from Mariana Mazzucato & Michele O'Neil at the ANMF today & to catch up with some comrades I haven’t seen since before parenting leave.

My bebe enjoyed it so much he made a beeline for the stage 🤷‍♀️ it’s always nice when his antics are met with warmth & good humour!

ICYMI - I have a new open-access article out in New Media & Society on “Disaster, Facial Recognition Technology, and the Problem of the Corpse” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Exactly. Given Australia's low population density & urban sprawl, profits should be lower, not higher. Especially as truck drivers are often sub-sub-
contractors & last mile delivery costs have been pushed onto gig workers via partnerships with Uber and Doordash Richard Denniss

Our special issue of New Media & Society on automation after the pandemic is out, and entirely open access! In the editorial @markandrejevic & I discuss automation and the temporality of viral contagion, preemptive intervention, and environmental control journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

My latest article 'Supermarket ‘dark jobs’ and rapid grocery delivery: Transformations in labour, technology and logistics' available here:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Add to that list competitor price surveillance! In a forthcoming piece in Surveillance & Society, I examine the retail “pricing intelligence” industry, its own exploitative labor practices, and its role in inflation

The hidden side of the supermarket giants’ quest for profits is an increasingly elaborate system for monitoring + managing shoppers and workers.

They implement technologies that treat the supermarket as a “problem space', writes Lauren Kate Kelly (@RMIT). theconversation.com/the-secret-sau…

From me: “While issues of market competition, price gouging, and power asymmetries with suppliers must be scrutinised, issues of worker and customer surveillance are the other side of the same coin – and they too must be reckoned with.”

theconversation.com/the-secret-sau…

Ep #1 of Inside the Glasshouse has dropped!

Since the #Perfection12 lodged a sexual assault case, other farm workers have come forward w their own stories of bullying & unsafe work practices at Perfection Fresh

WATCH here: rottenperfection.org/webseries

#ausunions Woolworths Coles Supermarkets