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As tech reaches terminal #enshittification, so hollowed that they're barely able to keep end-users or business customers locked in, capital's running the final #rugpull, where all value is transfered from those who make things for a living to those who own things for a living. 1/ 
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"#ActivistInvestors" have triggered massive waves of tech layoffs, firing so many #TechWorkers so quickly that it's hard to even come up with an accurate count. The total is somewhere around *280,000* workers:
layoffs.fyi 3/
layoffs.fyi 3/
New article out on the subjectivity and class formation of #techworkers. I argue that tech workers would be misunderstood as "entrepreneurial selves". Rather, their subjectivity points to a transformation of post-Fordist work culture
Open-access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Open-access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Based on 40 interviews with tech workers, I show how they cultivate a return of social critique, a concern for diversity, an ethic of mindfulness, and a lifestyle of ordinariness. These distinct forms of subjectivity signal the formation of a new middle-class fraction
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However, the article also considers how this transformation of white-collar subjectivity entails novel forms of distinction, and how it may be appropriated as yet another new spirit of capitalism #digitalcapitalism #digitallabour
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