PhD Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
York University (Toronto, Canada)
Marcelo Vieta
Marcelo Vieta is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University. Grounded in a critical theoretical approach and a phenomenological methodology, his PhD work focuses on the political economic, socio-historical, and phenomenological underpinnings of the most recent cases of workers鈥 control in Argentina. Specifically, Vieta explores the interplay between work-life, technology, cultural production, workers鈥 militancy, and horizontal forms of organization in the movement of worker-recovered enterprises in Argentina. Vieta鈥檚 other academic interests include existential phenomenology, social interactional aspects of Internet sociability, and philosophy of technology.
E-mail: vieta [at] yorku [dot] ca
Publications
Book Chapters
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淟as empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores como cooperativas de trabajo: Los desaf铆os, e innovaciones de la autogesti贸n en la Argentina鈥, in Las empresas recuperadas: Autogesti贸n obrera en Argentina y Latinoam茅rica (A. Ruggeri, Ed., Buenos Aires: Editorial Ciccus, 2009).
Marcelo Vieta & Andr茅s Ruggeri, 鈥淭he Worker-Recovered Enterprises as Workers鈥 Cooperatives: The Conjunctures, Challenges, and Innovations of Self-Management in Argentina and Latin America鈥, in Co-operatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Co-operation Across Borders (J.J. McMurtry & Darryl Reed, Eds., Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).
Ezeiza, M.C., L. Ralon, M. Vieta y V. Ruocco (forthcoming) 鈥(De)formacion virtual: una mirada cr铆tica a las desventajas de la educaci贸n que se viene" [one of ten chapters in a book on the state of k-12 and postsecondary education in Argentina]. Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educaci贸n.
Chee, F., M. Vieta & Richard Smith (2006) 鈥淥nline Gaming and the Interactional Self: Identity Interplay in Situated Practice鈥, in J. Patrick Williams, Sean Q. Hendricks and W. Keith Winkler (eds.) Gaming as Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Articles
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Social Innovations of Autogesti贸n in Argentina鈥檚 Worker-Recuperated Enterprises: Cooperatively Organizing Productive Life in Hard Times鈥, Labor Studies Journal, vol. 34, no. 3 (September 2009).
Marcelo Vieta, "Understanding Technological Rationality: Marcuse鈥檚 Critiques of Technology and Contemporary Implications for Technological Liberation", (under review).
Marcelo Vieta, "Hope for Our Technological Inheritance? From Substantive Critiques of Technology to Marcuse鈥檚 Post-Technological Rationality", Strategies of Critique: A Graduate Journal of Social and Politial Thought (forthcoming).
Marcelo Vieta. "The Bloggy Way of Doing Things鈥: An Assessment of Blogs through the Social Interactions of Bloggers", Proceedings of the 4th annual conference of Chinese Internet Communication, (Wuhan, China: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, October 12-14, 2007).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎rgentina鈥檚 Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement: Reconstituting Working Lives,鈥 New Socialist Magazine, Issue 57 (Toronto, Summer, 2006). Available from: Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淩ethinking Life Online: The Interactional Self as a Theory for Internet-Mediated Communication鈥, Iowa Journal of Communication, vol. 37, no. 1 (Storm Lake,Iowa, USA, Spring/Fall 2005).
Laureano Ralon, Marcelo Vieta, y Lucia Vasquez, 鈥(De)formaci贸n en l铆nea: acerca de las desventajas de la educaci贸n virtual鈥, Comunicar, issue 22 (Huelva, Spain: University ofHuelva, Jan. 2005). Available from: .
Maria Cristina Ezeiza, Laureano Ralon, Marcelo Vieta, y Vanessa Ruocco, "(De)formacion virtual: una mirada critica a las desventajas de la educacion que se viene",Educ.ar (Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educacion, Oct. 2003). Available from:http://weblog.educ.ar/site/archives/000251.php
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淵ork University鈥檚 Email Policy for Graduate Students: Observations, Concerns, and Recommendations for CUPE 3903鈥檚 2005 Collective Bargaining Round.鈥 Paper submitted to the Canadian Union of Public Employee鈥檚 Unit 3903鈥檚 2005 bargaining round call for papers (May 2005).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淢arshal McLuhan, Don Ihde, and the North American School of Communication鈥, digest: Innovations in New Media, vol.1.11 (Vancouver: Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Mar./Apr. 2004). Available from:
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淲hat鈥檚 the Matter with the Blogosphere?鈥, digest: Innovations in New Media, vol.1.10 (Vancouver: Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology,Simon Fraser University, Nov. 2003). Available from:
Marcelo Vieta and Laureano Ralon, 鈥淭he Constituent Media of the Video Gaming Centre鈥, digest: Innovations in New Media, vol.1.10 (Vancouver: Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Nov. 2003). Available from:
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淯nderstanding the Internet鈥檚 Place in our Everyday Lives鈥, digest: Innovations in New Media, vol.1.9 (Vancouver: Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Mar. 2003). Available from:
Translations
Andres Ruggeri, 鈥淭he Worker Recovered Enterprises in Argentina: The Political and Socio-Economic Challenges of Self-Management鈥 (Marcelo Vieta, translator), Another World is Necessary鈥, Centre for Global Justice conference proceedings (Jul. 2006). Available from:
Lectures and Presentations
Marcelo Vieta, "Autogesti贸n and the Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: The Potential for Reconstituting Work and Recomposing Life", conference paper presented at the first annual "Reimagining Revolution Anarachist Studies Network conference,Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK (Sept. 4-6, 2008), http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/Re-Imagining_Revolution
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淔rom Substantive Critiques of Technology to Marcuse鈥檚 Post-Technological Rationality of Liberation鈥, conference paper presented at the 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Left, What鈥檚 Right鈥 Strategies of Critique annual graduate conference, Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada (April 25-26, 2008).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎utogesti贸n in Argentina鈥檚 Worker-Recuperated Enterprises: The Possibilities and Challenges for Self-Management鈥, conference paper presented at the Historical Materialism annual conference, York University, Toronto, Canada (Apr. 24-26, 2008).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淲orker-Recovered Enterprises as Workers鈥 Cooperatives: Something Old or Something New?鈥 conference paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association annual conference, Montreal, Canada (Sept. 5-8, 2007).
Marcelo Vieta & Andr茅s Ruggeri, "Las empresas recuperadas y las cooperatives de trabajo: 驴Algo viejo o algo nuevo?" Conference paper presented at the Workers鈥 Economy: Self-Management and the Distribution of Wealth gathering, University of Buenos Aires,Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jul. 19-21, 2007).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Worker-Recovered Enterprises in Argentina: Worker Self-Management and Hope Within Socio-Economic Crisis,鈥 talk given at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto, Canada (Mar. 20, 2007).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎rgentina鈥檚 Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement and the Reconstitution of Working Lives鈥, conference paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Toronto, Canada (May 28, 2006).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement in Argentina: Workers鈥 Self-Management and Hope within Social-Economic Crisis,鈥 conference paper presented at the Canadian Association of Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Calgary,Alberta, Canada (Sept. 28-30 2006).
鈥淢cLuhan, the Frankfurt School, and Media Studies.鈥 Guest lecture given in a course taught by Christine Shaw: History and Theory of Visual Culture, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada (Jan. 9, 2006).
鈥淗ere Be Dragons.鈥 Introductory lecture for Humanities 1650: The Networked Imagination, introducing students to an exhibit on critical cartography that I co-curated at the Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Nov. 25, 2005).
鈥淥vercoming the Inevitable Question 鈥榃ill this be on the test?鈥: The Value of the Concept in Teaching a First Year Foundations Course in Humanities.鈥 Talk given at 鈥淒ialogues on Teaching: Workshop for TAs on Teaching in Humanities Foundations,鈥 York University,Toronto, Canada, (Nov. 1, 2005).
鈥淭he Will-to-Virtuality.鈥 Lecture given in a course taught by Lew Lowther and Christine Sismondo: Humanities 1650, The Networked Imagination, Faculty of Humanities, YorkUniversity, Toronto, Canada (Mar. 8, 2005).
鈥淲hat鈥檚 Really Going On With the Blogosphere.鈥 Lecture given in a course co-taught by Lew Lowther, Christine Sismondo, and Joan Allen: Humanities 1650, The Networked Imagination, Faculty of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada (Mar. 21, 2005).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎utonomist Communication School: Bridging Critical Studies and Political Economy鈥, chaired panel at the National Communication Association annual conference, Chicago, USA (Nov. 12-14, 2004).
Marcelo Vieta & Florence Chee, 鈥淓verQuest, Online Game Communities, and the Interactional Self: Modes of Mediation and the Possibility of Integrated Personhood鈥, conference paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association, Winnipeg, Canada (Jun. 3-5, 2004).
鈥淎re There Heroes Anymore?鈥 鈥 A Philosopher鈥檚 Caf茅. Led a Philosopher鈥檚 Cafe put on by Simon Fraser University鈥檚 Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver, Canada (Apr. 26, 2004).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淢arshall McLuhan and Martin Heidegger: Comparing Two Philosophers of Technological Existence,鈥 conference paper presented at the bi-annual Nelson Graduate Conference jointly organized by the University of Calgary鈥檚 Faculty of Communication and Culture and 尤物视频鈥檚 School of Communication graduate student associations in Nelson, BC, Canada (Mar. 13-14, 2004).
鈥淗umour as a Language of Everyday Life: Towards a Theory of Subversion?鈥 Lecture given in a course developed by Prof. Gary McCarron and taught by Silva Tennenbein: Communication 304, Theories of Language in Everyday Life, School of Communication, 尤物视频, Vancouver, Canada (Oct. 6, 2003).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Interactional Self and the Experiences of Internet Mediated Communication as Seen Through Heidegger, Mead, and Schutz鈥, conference paper presented at the Association of Internet Researcher鈥檚 鈥淏roadening the Band鈥 conference in Toronto, Canada (Oct. 16-19, 2003). (Also a finalist for the AoIR student paper award.)
鈥淭he Rise of the Net Generation鈥 鈥 A Philosopher鈥檚 Caf茅. Led a Philosopher鈥檚 Cafe put on by Simon Fraser University鈥檚 Centre for Dialogue in Whistler, BC, Canada (Jun. 15, 2003).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Interactional Self, Social Situation, and Internet Mediated Communication: The Self Online as Seen Through the Social Interaction Theories of Mead and Schutz鈥, conference paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association, Nova Scotia, Canada (Jun. 1-4, 2003).
鈥淓thical Consumption and Voluntary Simplicity.鈥 Lecture given twice in a course taught by Prof. Zoe Druick: Communication 223 鈥 Advertising as Social Communication, Schoolof Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (Mar. 28, 2003 and Nov. 20, 2003).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎n Emerging Theory of the Interactional Self for Internet Sociability鈥, conference paper presented at the Intersections 2003 conference 鈥淏ridging Boundaries鈥 put on by York University/Ryerson鈥檚 Communication and Culture program, Toronto, Canada (Mar. 14-15, 2003).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淗ow the Social Interaction Theories of Schutz and Mead Can Help to Understand the Practices of Autobiography Online.鈥 Presentation given at the Exploring Autobiographical Practices lecture series at Green College, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, put on by the UBC Dpt. of English (Jan. 15, 2003).
鈥淩ealizing Learning Communities on the BC Education Portal.鈥 Presentation given to the 鈥淟earning Communities: Uniting Education鈥 seminar put on by New Media BC (May 9, 2002): http://newmediabc.com/presentation.asp
鈥淪ustainable Community Building Online.鈥 Presentation given to the British Columbia Community Networks Spring 2001 Conference on behalf of TELUS Communication: http://hp.bccna.bc.ca/Community/Conf2001/
鈥渆Learning Strategies for Your Organization.鈥 Numerous presentations given to all levels of government, the non-profit sector, and business communities as an employee of TELUS Communications (2001-2002).
鈥淏uilding and Maintaining Virtual Communities.鈥 Numerous presentations given to all levels of government, the non-profit sector, and business communities as an employee of TELUS Communications (1999-2001).
Newspaper Publications
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淎 Critical Look at York University鈥檚 Email Policy for Graduate Students鈥, Critical Times, vol. 2, issue 7 (York University鈥檚 Graduate Student Association and the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 3903, Oct. 2005).
Marcelo Vieta, 鈥淭he Day After the World Stood Still: Immediate Reflections on 9/11鈥,myBC.com (Vancouver: TELUS Communications, Sept. 2001). Available from:
Editorships
Guest editor on "The New Cooperativism" in the peer reviewed journal Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 2009). Available from: