State of Insecurity

LOREY,ISABELL

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Author
LOREY,ISABELL
Publish Date
11/01/2014
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
VERSOB
Subtitle
Government of the Precarious
Number of Pages
148
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
1781685967
ISBN-13
9781781685969
SKU
9781781685969

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.