Non-Stop Inertia

Name: Non-Stop Inertia
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ISBN: 9781846945304

ISBN-10: 1846945305

ISBN-13: 9781846945304

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ivor Southwood

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In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications and rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are we really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep paralysis of thought and action, and that rather than being unquestionable or inevitable, the environment of personal flexibility and perpetual crisis we now inhabit is ideologically constructed. Illustrating its arguments with actual examples and using theory to make connections and unlock meanings, the book shows how in our constant anxious pursuit of work and leisure we are running on the spot against a scrolling CGI backdrop. This book…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 3/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 106
Size: 5.65" wide x 8.77" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Introduction


Non-Stop Inertia


Precarity 2.0


Emotional Labour


Non-Places


Virtual Mobility


From Unemployment to 'Jobseeking'


The Privatisation of Unemployment


Jobseeking as Career


Mind the Gap


Predictable Unpredictability


Ways Out


Notes