C a n t h e s u b a l t e r n b e l i s t e n e d t o ? a n a n t h r o p o l o g y o f p l a t f o r m c o m m o n s e n s e i n s p i t e o f t h e l a w juan m. del nido taxis vs. uber: courts, markets, and technology in buenos aires (stadford university press, 2021, 238 p.) excitement around the platform economy and all its bene fi ts has been heavily promoted within management and business schools. some authors envision futurist portraits of utopian labor landscapes and participatory capitalism. more nuanced and critical takes usually come from social science accounts, including political economic analysis such as martin kenney and john zysman in their inaugural referential text on the rise of the platform economy [ ] pointing to its possible ups and downs, or the neo-marxist economic analysis developed by nick srineck in platform capitalism ] warning of multiple risks, notably the rise of monopolistic infrastructural giants. much of this growing body of literature has focused on a sociological analysis of labor, with diagnoses ranging from “ cybertariat ” [huws 2015 ] toongoingcritiquesof fl exibility, in this case digital fl exibility, as “ precarious work pointed out by arne kalleberg and steven vallas [ ]. critical accounts of the gig economy have been developed by alexandrea rabenelle [ 2019 ], jamie woodcock and mark graham [ 2020 ], and juliet b. schor [ 2021 ], among others. there have also been ethnographic engagements such as alex rosemblant ’ s uberland: how algorithms are rewriting the rules of work