Disrupting Digital Nomadism and Recharging New Class and Gendered Labor Subjects
2023-08-12
August 12 (Saturday), 09:30-11:00
Keynote: Pun Ngai (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Moderator: Andy Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Abstract
Through the lens of digital nomadism, this paper aims to detail an investigation into the newly emerging digital subjects in China. Moving beyond the westernised image of digital nomads, especially in terms of their strong opposition to conventional workplaces, the newly emerging digital subjects in China instead navigate, reside, and turn their conventional workplace into the main site of social media affordance. Far from not mattering, the conventional workplace as a locale of the production sphere and a location of the labour process is central to female workers’ video production. Instead of iterating the idea of multi-site to interpret these intersections, we rather articulate the concept of “re-coupling site” to explore its overlapping and condensation of digital and cultural production. We argue that it contains two intersected layers of digital nomadization in an alternative global South context: one symbolises the re-incorporation of the conventional workplace into the digital nomadic work; based on it, the other explodes the voices and visibility of these unprivileged digital nomads against their privileged counterparts in the global North. The intersection further leads us to discuss spatial politics of deterritorization and re-occupation embedded in digital nomadism.
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