State of insecurity
Subtitle: government of the precarious
By: Isabell Lorey ; translated by Aileen Derieg ; with a foreword by Judith Butler
Contributors: Derieg, Aileen, translator; Butler, Judith, 1956- writer of foreword; Lorey, Isabell
Series: Futures
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781781685969; 9781781685952
Subjects: Self-perception; Security (Psychology); Work environment; PHILOSOPHY / Political; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Work titles: Regierung der Prekären
Description: "After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but more totally, to the formation of the self: work becomes performative and affective, and personal identities seep more and more into working ones. This new mode of being has another side, however: it can lead to new forms of self-organization, resistance and exodus. In it we see the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-133) and index.