While primarily this is a critique of the demand to love your work from an anti-work and anti-productivist perspective, it also explores where discussions of love also make their way into anti-work narratives too, sometimes without problematizing love as a deeply ambivalent affective stance. - ThreadSky

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dcockayne.bsky.social • 96 days ago

While primarily this is a critique of the demand to love your work from an anti-work and anti-productivist perspective, it also explores where discussions of love also make their way into anti-work narratives too, sometimes without problematizing love as a deeply ambivalent affective stance.

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dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

We also use discourses around (and critiques of) The Great Resignation and Beyoncé's "Break My Soul" as framing mechanisms for the piece, in a way that we hope is both playful and elucidating.

dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

Finally, @jessaloomis.bsky.social and I wrote a paper in @jcultecon.bsky.social "A Feminist approach to fintech: Exploring 'buy now, pay later,' technologies and consumer fintech." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2024.2323692

dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is a paper that pushes for a feminist analysis of financial technologies, building on feminist economic geography and feminist political economy. It uses "buy now, pay later" platforms as an example of how fintech is increasingly part of consumer spaces.

dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

This has been relatively unexamined in fintech research thus far (though see Gordan Tan's research), but it's central to broader processes that include the financialization of social reproduction and transformations of our societal relationships to consumer debt.

dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

Our framework highlights that social difference should be central to understandings of fintech, both as a way to understand how predatory activity works on these platforms, but also to highlight how difference functions as a mechanism for accumulation.

dcockayne.bsky.social•96 days ago

It centres the household and social reproduction as domains of central interest to fintech researchers, and emphasizes how digital applications are transforming financial technologies through data extraction and by creating digital "ecosystems" for financial activity.

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