State of Insecurity Government of the Precarious

Name: State of Insecurity Government of the Precarious
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ISBN: 9781781685969

ISBN-10: 1781685967

ISBN-13: 9781781685969

Edition: 2015

Authors: Isabell Lorey, Judith Butler, Aileen Derieg

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"If we do not understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present."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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 2/3/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.