The Labor of the Future, the Future of Labor? A Just Transition Critique of the Digital Agriculture Utopia · BG · berlinergazette.de · 1999-2023

Self-driving tractors, drones, sensor-equipped animals, automated greenhouses, and vertical urban farms-these are the seemingly labor-free components of a digital-green agricultural sector. In her contribution to BG’s “Allied Grounds” text series Maura Benegiamo shows the limits and, at the same time, the highly speculative nature of these transformative visions, which fail to respond to current emergencies and accelerate the destruction of the socio-ecological foundations on which societies are based.

Allied Grounds · BG°2023 Project – The means of production have become the means of climate production, so how can we – all kinds of exploited workers around the world – seize these very means and address both the eco-social and decolonial question of the climate crisis?

After Extractivism · BG°2022 Project – How can we build our future on the legacies and claims of those who, yesterday as today, have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex? And how can we make such struggles a source of inspiration for a common cause?

Verwundbarkeit des Zusammenlebens: Auf dem Weg zu einer radikalen Politik der Earthcare

Während ökologische und ökonomische Systeme kollabieren, tobt ein Kampf um die weiße Vorherrschaft, der nicht zuletzt ein Klassenkampf um den Zugriff auf den schrumpfenden Lebensraum auf dem Planeten ist. Es ist höchste Zeit, dieser Entwicklung eine radikale Politik der Earthcare entgegenzusetz