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How might commodity chains (and their globally distributed working conditions) be rendered visible?

By and large, our everyday goods and services appear before us with little trace of their origins or constituent parts—the geographically-distributed raw materials, resources, technologies, factories, or working conditions that bring them into being. If they did, the glitter and gleam of a new laptop, or the sweetness of an apple, might be tempered. How do we resist the intentional opacity of commodity chains? How do we foreground dangerous and underpaid work, gig work, precarity, and migrant labour, with the awareness that these labour practices underpin all of our commodities? We ask this knowing that visibility doesn’t inherently create change. The divergent practices seen here offer ethics and methods to resist opacity: nose-to-tail commodity chain tracking; mind-mapping corporate and state connections; building systems that visualize their own operation; performances that foreground their own place within the broader economy; discursive programs that link labour history with contemporary working conditions.

  • Project

    Capitalist Duets

  • Project

    Turbulence (a dance about the economy)

  • Contributor

    Circo Zero

  • Program

    I stood before the source

  • Program

    Logics of Sense 1: Investigations

  • Program

    Logics of Sense 2: Implications

  • Program

    The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea

  • Project
    HARVEST
  • Program

    Worked/Working

  • Glossary

    Accumulation

  • Glossary

    Precarity

  • Glossary

    Migrant justice

  • Glossary

    Essential

  • Glossary

    Logistics

  • Glossary

    Opacity

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