Friday, 16 December 2016
Sharma and the use of time with Taxi`s
In Sarah Sharma`s Temporal Labour and The TaxiCab: Maintaining The Time
of Others, she discusses the concept of affective labour, which is the idea
of an subject establishing a link within space, essentially having that subject
make time for other subjects. In relation to Taxis, Sharma believes they are
constrained by giving the potential customer their services by driving them to
their destinations. Are there any other instances where a subject`s time is
being used in order to ensure the success of another subject? For instance, the
recent taxi app Uber has drivers that voluntarily use their own free time to
drive people in order to make a profit.
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This is an interesting concept and I think a good example of how time has become commodified. Although this concept is not necessarily new, as the Taxi cab functioned on the same general premise as uber. I would instead argue that this is an example of how the labour of the commodified user has been used to generate profit but without the traditional wage system.
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