5th May 2026 from 6:30pm BST
Sibin Eldhose
"Excluded from Power: Disability and the Political Economy of Civic Worth"
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#Marxism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
Thank you to everyone who attended our event today!
The May MDN event will take place on the 5th of May from 6:30pm BST
Sibin Eldhose: Excluded from Power: Disability and the Political Economy of Civic Worth
This event is due to start in less than 2 hours! Join us.
Tuesday next week from 6:30pm (UK time)!
#Marxism #Disability #DisabilityStudies #CripTime
Our April MDN event
Tuesday, 14th April, 6:30pm BST: Sofia Righetti Nottegar: Crip Time and Pedagogy of Resistance under Capitalism
The abstract is available here:
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#Marxism #Disabilty
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After a Workers' Inquiry workshop co-hosted with Notes from Below (in Jan) & a co-organised book review symposium event (in Mar), we're excited to announce 9 more events for 2026!
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Joining links will be shared on the MDN mailing list ahead of each event
Missed our event yesterday?
Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing
The video recording is now available on our Youtube Playlist/the HM Channel
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Starting in 40 minutes!
Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing
Reminder - the March MDN event with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni will take place on Tuesday next week from 6:30pm GMT!
#Disability #Marxism
If you'd like to catch up on some of our past events, our playlist with 33 video-recorded (and public) events is available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Poster with the list of all the events, written in white and yellow on a black background.
After a Workers' Inquiry workshop co-hosted with Notes from Below (in Jan) & a co-organised book review symposium event (in Mar), we're excited to announce 9 more events for 2026!
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Joining links will be shared on the MDN mailing list ahead of each event
Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills, is established, within which any claim to the value generated is pre-emptively undermined. Our study shows that technoableism offers a powerful theoretical lens to interrogate and demystify the worker empowerment trope at the core of Industry 5.0.
24th March 2026, 6:30pm UK time – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...
Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills, is established, within which any claim to the value generated is pre-emptively undermined. Our study shows that technoableism offers a powerful theoretical lens to interrogate and demystify the worker empowerment trope at the core of Industry 5.0.
24th March 2026, 6:30pm UK time – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...
The video recording of 'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care' is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF...
#Anticapitalism #PirateCare #Resistance #CollectiveAction @plutopress.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who joined us today! Once the recording becomes available, we'll share it here
Our next event will take place on 24 March from 6:30pm GMT with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’
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3 days left (including today) to submit an abstract for the Notes from Below issue on Disability & Work!
Many thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts for our 2026 series of monthly online events! We will get back in touch with everyone in early March & looking forward to what's to come!
Pirate Care was publishd by @plutopress.bsky.social as part of the Vagabonds Series in early 2025. You can find out more about it here: www.plutobooks.com/product/pira...
And make sure you join the reviewers & authors for a discussion on 3rd March, 7pm GMT: vagabonds.xyz/hope-and-ref...
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Our CfA for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archives - Georgia van Toorn and Karen Soldatić: Disability, Racism, and the Spectre of Eugenics in Digital Welfare
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#Disability #Marxism
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Our CfA for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archives - Sabine Fernandes & Rachel da Silveira Gorman - Care as white property: A Marxist intervention into disability care work
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#Disability
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Join us on March 3, 7pm GMT for an online discussion of Pirate Care by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
This event is supported by various collectives & will launch a book review forum published in the Postdigital Science & Education Journal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Our Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archives - Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/s...
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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive - Ioana Cerasella Chis: Disablement Subjectivation and the Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/08/30/h...
#Marxism
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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive: Aaron Jaffe: Social Reproduction Theory, ‘Disability’, and the Reification of Labor Power
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/07/04/j...
#Marxism #Disability
Printscreen of the video recording's cover page with the title of the presentation on a yellow background, alongside HM's logo
Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive: Blue Maignien: Researching Time at the Intersection of Marxism, Disability and Technology
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/j...
#Marxism #Disability
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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive: Ravi Malhotra and Jacqueline Moizer: Crip Time, Castoriadis and #Disability Rights in the Workplace
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/m...
#Marxism
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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive: Luke Beesley: Extract and abandon? Surplus populations & surplus value in Health Communism
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/a...
#Marxism #Disability
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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20th Feb 2026!
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From our archive: Leonard Grant – Marxism and the Medical Curriculum
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#Marxism #Disability
