ABSTRACT
This chapter, picking up on the prior chapter’s call for an accurate and socially motivated description of contemporary architectural production, focuses on the concept of “immaterial labor.” It does so by comparing “immaterial labor” to other concepts dealing with similar characterizations of contemporary work—post-industrial, post-capital, gig, etc. The focus on how these concepts overlap and diverge points out the particular, Italian “workerist” history of “immaterial labor” that makes it uniquely helpful for a socially impactful and meaningful notion of contemporary architectural work.
