State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious - Couverture rigide

Lorey, Isabell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781685959 ISBN 13 : 9781781685952

Editeur : Verso Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 the Trade Paperback edition.

Revue de presse :

“The important contribution of this thoughtful work is to let us understand finally that precarity is not a passing or episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time.”
—Judith Butler, from the foreword
From the Trade Paperback edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781685959
• ISBN 13: 9781781685952
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160