Lisa Nakamura brought me to thinking about the dehumanization of online laborers, they who “all look the same” because they all are the same," (p. 368) and how their "replaceability and interchangeability" —is evocative of earlier conceptions of Asian laborers as interchangeable and replaceable has been a constant with laborers without laborers. This trailer, which I came across during Ruha Benjamin's talk, is also a result of "radically unequal social relations, labor types, and forms of representation along the axes of nation, language, and identity," (p.376) that Nakamura concludes her chapter on:
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Gold farming in a transnational state
Lisa Nakamura brought me to thinking about the dehumanization of online laborers, they who “all look the same” because they all are the same," (p. 368) and how their "replaceability and interchangeability" —is evocative of earlier conceptions of Asian laborers as interchangeable and replaceable has been a constant with laborers without laborers. This trailer, which I came across during Ruha Benjamin's talk, is also a result of "radically unequal social relations, labor types, and forms of representation along the axes of nation, language, and identity," (p.376) that Nakamura concludes her chapter on:
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