A Note on Precarity

This book was written just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it goes to publication, we are still in the midst of reckoning with our changed and changing world. We mourn the loss of life and we rage at how the trail of illness and death has had disproportionate impact on communities of color. We see in this crisis the entrenchment of an already broken system run on depletion: an intensification of environmental racism, necropolitics, and surveillance. With this book, we hope to advance a conversation about how digital technologies amplify conditions of exploitation. We invite readers to become respondents, collaborators, and comrades as new forms of technoprecarity emerge.