State of Insecurity - Government of the Precarious

Informationen zum Autor Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and a Queer Studies Professor at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne and works for transversal texts (transversal.at), the publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). She is the author of several books, including State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious . Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War , Precarious Life , The Psychic Life of Power , Excitable Speech , Bodies that Matter , Gender Trouble , and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality . Klappentext "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 have 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-organisation, resistance, and exodus. In it we see the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. Zusammenfassung Charting the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.

Product details

• Authors: Isabell Lorey
• Assisted by: Judith Butler (Foreword), Aileen Derieg (Translation), Derieg Aileen (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.02.2015
• EAN: 9781781685969
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-596-9
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Verso Futures
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, Social forecasting, future studies, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy