机心存于胸中:数字劳动之中的工位束缚与空间化用

"With a Machine Heart in Your Breast":Office Cubicles'Bondage and Spatial Appropriation in Digital Labour

数字劳动重塑当代全球劳动秩序。以往的数字劳动批判大多集中于人的主体视角,忽略了地的空间视角。本文以办公工位之中的人—机—地三者关系为研究对象,借助德国批判理论学者拉埃尔·耶姬(Rahel Jaeggi)的异化—化用概念和定性研究方法来展开相关理论及案例分析,以期深入理解当代数字劳动空间之中的内部结构及互动机制。研究发现:数字劳动空间之中,共有人类、机器和空间三个行动者,三者之间存在着多重耦合与解耦过程;电脑主导的工位束缚与员工主导的空间化用是数字劳动空间博弈的两个主要过程,日常异化与日常抵抗两股力量交织在数字劳动空间之中;数字劳动空间是数字劳动批判的重要角度,有利于从地的视角补充数字劳动之中的人地关系研究,探析数字劳工形式与数字劳动空间之间的辩证关系。本文的数字劳动空间批判是对数字劳动主体批判的议题拓展,是从马克思主义地理学的视阈进一步探讨数字劳动的可能解放形式。

Digital labour reshapes the contemporary global labour order.Previous critiques of digital labour have tended to focus on the subjective perspective of the human,neglecting the spatial perspective of the place.This article takes the human-machine-place relationship in the office cubicle as the object of study and draws on German critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi's concept of alienation-appropriation and qualitative research methods to develop relevant theories and case studies to gain a deeper understanding of the internal structure and interaction mechanisms in contemporary digital labour.This study,firstly,finds that there are three actors in the digital labour space:Humans,machines,and place.Multiple coupling and decoupling processes exist between them.In addition,computer-led office cubicles'bondage and employee-led spatial appropriation are the two main processes in the game of digital labour space,and everyday alienation and everyday resistance are intertwined in the digital labour space.Lastly,digital labour space is an important perspective for the critique of digital labour,which is conducive to complementing the study of human-place relations in digital labour,and exploring the relationship between digital labour and digital labour space.The digital labour space critique in this article is an effective complement to the critique of the digital labour subject and is conducive to further exploring the possible forms of emancipation of digital labour from the perspective of Marxist geography.