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What does a world (dis)organized by techno-capitalism look like? In China, platform work is booming: with the help of smartphones, everything can be delivered, and everything becomes a spectacle. This system is reshaping the lives of those who, at different levels of the social hierarchy, accept precarious working conditions in exchange for its promise of freedom. Immersing itself in the everyday lives of e-commerce workers—and extending to the fringes of the supply chain, where elderly women collect discarded cardboard—Platform offers an intimate portrait of lives lived to the rhythm of algorithms.