Capitalism in the Platform Age Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces

Sandro Mezzadra is a professor of political theory at the University of Bologna (Italy) and is an adjunct fellow at Western Sydney University (Australia). With Brett Neilson, he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke University Press, 2013) and of The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019) and co-authored with Brett Neilson "The Rest and the West. Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024).

Niccolò Cuppini is lecturer and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Manno, Switzerland), editoriale member of the Scienza&Politica, member of the LUCI – Labour, Urbanscapes and Citizenship research area at the Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale (DEASS), and founding member of the Into the Black Box research group.

Mattia Frapporti is Junior Researcher within the HorizonEurope INCA project at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna. His main interests are the analysis of the political role of infrastructures and the relationship between logistics and politics. Since many years now, his research also focuses on the platform’s world and their impact on urban spaces. He is a founding member of the research group Into the Black Box and he is on the editorial board of Zapruder and on the board of the Foundation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe.

Maurilio Pirone is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Arts of University of Bologna (Italy) working in the Horizon Europe project INCA (Increase Corporate Political Responsibility and Accountability), founding member of the Into the Black Box research group, and member of the editorial board of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Journal.