Amazon

This book’s critical analyses of Amazon.com trace the political economy of the platform, the practices of resistance that laborers and activists have employed against it, the broader cultural impacts it has had on everyday life, and its broader environmental impacts on the world.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

The Political Economy of Amazon

Lina Khan, "Amazon's Anti-Trust Paradox" [Reprint]

Ulysses Pascal, "Amazon 1-Click and the Value of Broken Infrastructure"

Nikolaus Poechhacker and Eva-Maria Nyckel, "The Logistics of Probability: Anticipatory Shipping and the Production of Markets" [Reprint]

Alessandro Delfanti, "Amazonian Fulfillment: Machinic Dispossession and Augmented Despotism"

Practices of Resistance

Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant, "Platforms, Resistance, Organizing"

xtine burrough, "Disrupting Work with Play on Mturk. com: A Visual Essay"

Lilly Irani, "Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers: The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk" [Reprint]

Amazon and Culture

David Arditi, "Unending Consumption: A Prime Example"

Lisa Daily, "Amazon Eats Whole Foods"

Maillim Santiago, "Virtuous Viewing and Amazon Studios"

Environmental Impact

Brett Hutchins, Libby Lester, Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller, and Whitney Monaghan, "Quick and Slow Violence: The Age of Billionaire Biodiversity."

Emily West, "Decoding Amazon's Climate Pledge: Public Relations and the Platformization of Governance"

Patrick Brodie and Paul O'Neill, "Confronting the Regionalism of Amazon Web Services"

Appendix

Hiba Ali and Nina Sarnelle, "Art and Action"

List of Contributors
Index
About the Editors