{"id":1946,"date":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","slug":"state-of-insecurity-government-of-the-precarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/2015\/02\/19\/state-of-insecurity-government-of-the-precarious\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1737-state-of-insecurity\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1947 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lorey_State_of_Insecurity-max_221-54254a935ea7183220057aa3ddc0ad7f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>by Isabell Lorey<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Aileen Derieg<br \/>\nForeword by Judith Butler<\/p>\n<div class=\"body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe important contribution of this thoughtful work is to let us understand finally that precarity is not a passing or episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time.\u201d<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\u2013 Judith Butler, from the foreword<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Isabell Lorey<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.<\/p>\n<p>In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}