Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capita…
In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep paralysis of thought and action…
Precarious Japan reflects on how the Japanese are experiencing insecurity in the contemporary era of nagging recession, irregular labor, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking overall population with more and more elderly.
"In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural condit…
"Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest …
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"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 mo…
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromVerso Futures
"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 mo…
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"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 mo…
Quantifizierung, Singularisierung, digitaler Kapitalismus - mit diesen Schlagwörtern wird in der soziologischen Zeitdiagnose über die Veränderung der Gesellschaft sowie der Subjekte der Gegenwart gesprochen. Aber wie verhalten sich die beobachteten Veränderungen zur Grundstruktu…
Quantifizierung, Singularisierung, digitaler Kapitalismus - mit diesen Schlagwörtern wird in der soziologischen Zeitdiagnose über die Veränderung der Gesellschaft sowie der Subjekte der Gegenwart gesprochen. Aber wie verhalten sich die beobachteten Veränderungen zur Grundstruktu…
Quantifizierung, Singularisierung, digitaler Kapitalismus - mit diesen Schlagwörtern wird in der soziologischen Zeitdiagnose über die Veränderung der Gesellschaft sowie der Subjekte der Gegenwart gesprochen. Aber wie verhalten sich die beobachteten Veränderungen zur Grundstruktu…
