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SUMMARY:Delivery Drone Fictions: Conceiving Transportation and Logistics a
 s Care Work - J.D. Schnepf (University of Groningen))
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251016T164500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251016T174500
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DESCRIPTION:Why do popular narratives of automated drone delivery so often
  feature mothers\, midwives\, and babysitters? To answer this question\, t
 his talk takes at its starting point the tech industry claim that advances
  in artificial intelligence and robotics promise to relieve reproductive a
 nd domestic laborers from the drudgery of menial tasks. Unencumbered from 
 these obligations\, we’re told\, humans are free to reach their full pot
 ential. As feminist scholars remind us\, however\, this vision of automati
 on regards the gendered and racialized workers who historically perform de
 valued tasks under racial capitalism as less than human. Moreover\, despit
 e industry forecasts of human obsolescence\, the automated workplace hasn
 ’t eliminated human labor so much as degraded it: workers are routinely 
 subjected to unsafe conditions\, sped-up production schedules\, and unreli
 able work hours. This talk examines how science fiction offers an uneven c
 ritique of racial capitalism’s violence and degradation by way of its gl
 obal shipping networks. Specifically\, through tales of drones performing 
 automated gestational and post-gestational labor\, this talk argues that s
 cience fiction tests the biopolitical limits of transportation and logisti
 cs as gendered\, reproductive care work.\nSpeakers:\nJ.D. Schnepf (Univers
 ity of Groningen))
LOCATION:Rothermere American Institute (Downstairs Seminar Room)\, 1A Sout
 h Parks Road OX1 3UB
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/20303a54-c99b-4c1e-8d17-6208cb6a89fa/
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