State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (Futures)

Type

Book

Authors

Isabell Lorey

ISBN 10

1781685967

ISBN 13

9781781685969

Tags

Technology, Political, Social Sciences, Cultural, History & Theory

Description

Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. - from Amzon

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