The constitution of metropolitan labour

June-October 2013

Abstract

The June Journeys of 2013 are aprehended as a metropolitan insurrection of the multitude in immaterial labour. A new type of labour, which occurs in services and in the metropolis, faces mobility and, therefore, the issue of transportation as a fundamental variable of its life and work. The price and the quality of public transportation thus became the terrain of metropolitan constitution of a new type of conflict: its origin is in the representation crisis itself and at the same time deepnes it. Contemporary capitalism explores life as a whole, the production of life forms based on life forms, among networks and streets. Suddenly, labour also begins to organize itself in networks and streets, affirming  its own life forms. This article addresses the production of subjectivities: life forms. What we saw in June 2013 and its aftermath is the wild ascension of a "nameless class".