Phoebe V Moore

The Quantified Worker

Monthly Archives: August, 2017

The Quantified Workplace: Tracking Affective Labour, for a Change

BBC4 Every Step You Take (17:08+) I was funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme to carry out research on the Quantified Workplace experiment, carried out in one Rotterdam office. Claudia Hammond … Continue reading

August 29, 2017 · Leave a comment

Wisdom of the Algorithmic Boss, or a Robot Army of Redressers?

Striphas comments that ‘algorithm is a less obvious keyword by means of which to make sense of culture today’ compared to keyword possibilities such as “information and crowd”’ (2015: 403). … Continue reading

August 21, 2017 · Leave a comment

Quantified Workers in Precarity

Conference and Two Books Launched Friday 13 October 2017. Sign up for a ticket on Eventbrite Final event for Dr Moore’s British Academy/Leverhulme project: ‘Agility, Work and the Quantified Self’ … Continue reading

August 15, 2017 · Leave a comment

Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts

Description and Praise ‘Moore’s book offers a timely overview of the critical models of the working body as a labour value. What counts, in Moore’s astute narrative, is how the … Continue reading

August 11, 2017 · 5 Comments