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SUMMARY:Moira Weigel: "A Genealogy of 'Like':  Taste\, Emotional Labor\, and Technology on the Dating Market"
DESCRIPTION:Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating \n“But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like”\nTaste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market \nIt is a truth universally acknowledged that “likes” play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by performing taste\, dating apps turn our “likes” into literal searching and sorting mechanisms. The favorite bands\, books\, foods\, and so on that you list on an OkCupid profile determine who can find you–and who might be too unlike you to make a good match. But where does the idea that consumer tastes are good predictors of romantic compatibility come from? As Bourdieu put it in his canonical study\, Distinction: “Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier.” Sociologists have shown that even on apps like Tinder\, where users are encouraged to make snap decisions based on visual data (photographs) alone\, they tend to select partners of similar socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Do “likes” simply recapitulate the functions that families\, community groups\, and schools have historically performed–sorting young people by class? Drawing on my newly released book\, “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating“\, I will present a Genealogy of the Like: excavating a wide range. \n\n  \nMoria Weigel is a PhD student in the joint program in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. Before coming to Yale\, she earned a BA (summa cum laude) from Harvard University\, and an M. Phil (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge\, where she was the Harvard Scholar in residence at Emmanuel College. She also worked as an Assistant Editor at Harper’s Magazine. \n“Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating\,” her first book\, is coming out from Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux in May 2016. In a series of interlinking essays\, LOL investigates the shape-shifting institution of dating–which\, she contends\, names the logic of courtship under consumer driven capitalism. Drawing on Marxist feminism\, sociology\, and cultural history\, she examines how dating has co-evolved with other forms of gendered labor. \n  \n*Free lunch will be provided. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moira-weigel-a-genealogy-of-like-taste-emotional-labor-and-technology-on-the-dating-market-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
DESCRIPTION:In our introductory Winter Seminar\, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment. \nThe first half of the meeting\, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as a category of social critique and its intersections with our work. In the second half of the meeting\, we intend to engage in a discussion of Paul Lafargue’s short piece The Right to be Lazy as a productive departure point for some of the directions listed above. \nSome questions we hope to explore might include: \n\nWhat differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized\, gendered\, heteropatriarchal\, class\, and/or colonial hierarchies?\nWhat social and economic practices figure an activity as work\, play\, nonwork\, or leisure?\nHow does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?\nIn what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?\n\n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-leisure-studies-winter-seminar-introduction-the-right-to-be-lazy-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151027T170000
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SUMMARY:Melissa Gregg: "8 Hours for What We Will"
DESCRIPTION:Discussion on time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. \nRSVP required. Please email Caroline Kao cakao@ucsc.edu. \nIn preparation\, please read 2 chapters of any time management self help book and make a note of those things that are classified as leisure activities by the author. \nSome of Melissa Gregg’s favorite books are:\nLeave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time…and Feel Great About It\nGetting Things Done: The ABCs of Time Management \nMelissa Gregg Bio: \nI am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities. \nMy recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context. \nAs an Australian-born researcher\, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies\, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book\, Counterproductive\, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011)\, The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth\, Duke 2010)\, and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006). \nBefore joining Intel\, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies\, University of Queensland (2004-8). \nhttp://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-8-hours-for-what-we-will-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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SUMMARY:Melissa Gregg: "From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate"
DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS: \n \nThis talk offers a reading of time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. It begins by revisiting classic moments in management theory – Taylor\, Gilbreth\, Mayo\, Drucker\, and more – and develops a framework for understanding contemporary productivity tools in light of these precursors. Rather than simply a metric for efficiency\, today productivity is a lifestyle practiced by elite\, autonomous workers who manage themselves in transient\, adhoc workplaces. Technology is the trusted and reliable companion across multiple domains\, contexts and experiences. \nAlso join us for a discussion with Melissa Greg on Tuesday October 27th at 5pm http://ihr.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-8-hours-for-what-we-will/ \nMelissa Gregg Bio: \nI am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities. \nMy recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context. \nAs an Australian-born researcher\, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies\, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book\, Counterproductive\, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011)\, The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth\, Duke 2010)\, and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006). \nBefore joining Intel\, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies\, University of Queensland (2004-8). \nhttp://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-from-productivity-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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