State of insecurity

By Isabell Lorey

Subjects: Politische Bewegung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Self-perception, Future Studies, Prekariat, Unsicherheit, Sozialstaat, History & Theory, Herrschaft, Work environment, Självuppfattning, PHILOSOPHY, Diskursanalyse, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Security (Psychology), Security (psychology), POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arbetsmiljö, Neoliberalismus, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political, Normalisierung

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"--