Precarious Rhapsody = Non Secure, Non Stable free source
"The person is free, sure. But his time is enslaved. His liberty is a juiridical fiction to which nothing in concrete daily life corresponds." ( Bifo 33)
In these first chapters Bifo gives us a lot of information on history. He talks about the cultural revolutions of the new era. He talks about the advances of our era and how far we have come. However, Bifo makes a point about capital. He argues that capital advances have allowed for the expolitation of workers who put hard labor into the work they produce. So, bascically what I got from what Bifo was saying here was that although the internet is a major advancement it allows for the expolitation of those who create such a useful tool.
Bifo makes an excellent point when he states " that time does not really belong to them, because it is separated from the social existence of the people who make it available to the combinative cyber-productive circuit" (33) This reminded me of the presentation we saw on Google. Google has created a work enviroment that seems free and filled with a laid back working enviroment. However, Google's creation of its work enviroment is really just controlling the workers. They exloit their workers by making them work long hours. They manipulate them by taking away their hours and making them stay at work " for what seems like easy free fun time."
Bifo states that the " average salary on the global level is hardly sufficient to buy the indispensible means for the mere survival of a person whose time is at the service of capital" (33)
Bifo was concerned with the amount of labor put into capital. The media is a new way to exploit the individual. Everyday we are further sucked into this system whose reality is not a good one. The first chapters introduce us to a rather dark side of media labor.
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