Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11210/23:10476406

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://necsus-ejms.org/cycles-of-labour-in-the-metaverse-we-will-be-housewives/" target="_blank" >https://necsus-ejms.org/cycles-of-labour-in-the-metaverse-we-will-be-housewives/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21717" target="_blank" >10.25969/mediarep/21717</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

During the twentieth century, housework has become an endless cycle of work that usually goes without social recognition. The technological innovations within the household and the policy of a family wage individualised the reproductive workers and isolated them in the social form of the “housewife”. The housewife then lives in an endless loop of daily routines of caring for the house and family. However, are there any continuities between this reproductive labour and the cognitive labour we perform in the digital space, as Kylie Jarrett indicates (Jarrett, 2016)? And is videographic criticism capable of not only showing but also analysing these continuities? Our audiovisual essay Cycles of Labour, which remediates the daily routines captured in the film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) through a simulated video-game interface. The essay takes the viewer through three stages in the cycle of extending the housewife logic into the digital sphere. It proceeds from introducing the evolution of reproductive labour to a playthrough that foregrounds the connections between reproductive and cognitive labour in the datafied society to a demonstration of how this development of housework translates into the labour of NPCs (non-playable characters) in video games. As a result, the videographic essay highlights that the heroine of Akerman’s film is not alone in her repetitive endeavours. In the virtual space, we are all becoming “digital housewives” (Jarrett, 2016).

Název v anglickém jazyce

Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives

Popis výsledku anglicky

During the twentieth century, housework has become an endless cycle of work that usually goes without social recognition. The technological innovations within the household and the policy of a family wage individualised the reproductive workers and isolated them in the social form of the “housewife”. The housewife then lives in an endless loop of daily routines of caring for the house and family. However, are there any continuities between this reproductive labour and the cognitive labour we perform in the digital space, as Kylie Jarrett indicates (Jarrett, 2016)? And is videographic criticism capable of not only showing but also analysing these continuities? Our audiovisual essay Cycles of Labour, which remediates the daily routines captured in the film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) through a simulated video-game interface. The essay takes the viewer through three stages in the cycle of extending the housewife logic into the digital sphere. It proceeds from introducing the evolution of reproductive labour to a playthrough that foregrounds the connections between reproductive and cognitive labour in the datafied society to a demonstration of how this development of housework translates into the labour of NPCs (non-playable characters) in video games. As a result, the videographic essay highlights that the heroine of Akerman’s film is not alone in her repetitive endeavours. In the virtual space, we are all becoming “digital housewives” (Jarrett, 2016).

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies

ISSN

2213-0217

e-ISSN

2213-0217

Svazek periodika

12

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

2

Strana od-do

220-222

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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