The NEURO TALK "Biopolitical research about the transformations of labor" took place on saturday noon, 28th of February 2004. Valery Rey Alzaga (Justice for Janitors), Paulina (Precarias), Nicholas Bell (Limans), Thomas Atzert and Andrew Paterson (Mapping) are discussing outsourcing and lean production, the becoming migrant of labor, cognitive labor and industries of affect as well as division and recomposition: the biopolitical network of immaterial labor.

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