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The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a
segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but
is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social
on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and
polysemantic, it traverses contemporary society and multiple
contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as
well as political participation, citizenship and migration. This
book maps the differences and similarities in the ways
precariousness and insecurity in employment and beyond unfold and
are subjectively experienced in regions and sectors that are
confronted with different labour histories, legislations and
economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst
different global regions and across disciplines, the chapters
explore the shift from precariousness to precariat and collective
subjects as it is being articulated in the current global crisis.
This edited collection aims to continue a process of mapping
experiences by means of ethnographies, fieldwork, interviews,
content analysis, where the precarious define their condition and
explain how they try to withdraw from, cope with or embrace it.
This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in
geography, sociology, economics and labour studies.
The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a
segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but
is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social
on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and
polysemantic, it traverses contemporary society and multiple
contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as
well as political participation, citizenship and migration. This
book maps the differences and similarities in the ways
precariousness and insecurity in employment and beyond unfold and
are subjectively experienced in regions and sectors that are
confronted with different labour histories, legislations and
economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst
different global regions and across disciplines, the chapters
explore the shift from precariousness to precariat and collective
subjects as it is being articulated in the current global crisis.
This edited collection aims to continue a process of mapping
experiences by means of ethnographies, fieldwork, interviews,
content analysis, where the precarious define their condition and
explain how they try to withdraw from, cope with or embrace it.
This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in
geography, sociology, economics and labour studies.
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political
works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is
both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought
and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical
trajectory. Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern
era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of
the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism
and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and
reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a
ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of
wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a
vanguard opposed to the Ancien Regime. Negri instead champions
Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class
configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He
argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and
beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing
different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to
recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its
potential to institutionally-not anarchically-dismantle centralized
power.
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political
works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is
both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought
and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical
trajectory. Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern
era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of
the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism
and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and
reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a
ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of
wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a
vanguard opposed to the Ancien Regime. Negri instead champions
Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class
configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He
argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and
beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing
different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to
recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its
potential to institutionally-not anarchically-dismantle centralized
power.
In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and
critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most
significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each
chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you
can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In
addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranciere and
Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on
Green critical theorists. Key Features *Written by experienced
lecturers including John Armitage (Northumbria University), Paul
Hegarty (University College Cork), David Huddart (Chinese
University of Hong Kong), Simon Tormey (The University of Sydney),
Samuel A. Chambers (Johns Hopkins University) *Sets each theorist
in their biographical and intellectual context *The only book to
offer chapter-length introductions to such a range of contemporary
theorists making it the first place to look for an informed
overview and evaluation *Jon Simons has edited two other popular
guides to critical theory: From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary
Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.
A celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment,
and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor
market. In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the
conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's
flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of
Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis
of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innovation that
has generated his best-known concepts, such as "immaterial labor."
The book (published in France in 2009) is also groundbreaking in
the way it brings Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari to bear on the
analysis of concrete political situations and real social
struggles, while making a significant theoretical contribution in
its own right. Lazzarato draws on the experiences of casual workers
in the French entertainment industry during a dispute over the
reorganization ("reform") of their unemployment insurance in 2004
and 2005. He sees this conflict as the first testing ground of a
political program of social reconstruction. The payment of
unemployment insurance would become the principal instrument for
control over the mobility and behavior of the workers. The flexible
and precarious workforce of the entertainment industry prefigured
what the entire workforce in contemporary societies is in the
process of becoming: in Foucault's words, a "floating population"
in "security societies." Lazzarato argues further that parallel to
economic impoverishment, neoliberalism has produced an
impoverishment of subjectivity-a reduction in existential
intensity. A substantial introduction by Jeremy Gilbert situates
Lazzarato's analysis in a broader context.
The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based
on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of
individual realisation, simultaneously stressing its distance from
the modern conception of individuality. The 'correlate' of
singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the
'individual' and the 'collective', which occurs in class struggles.
Long before Antonio Negri became famous around the world for his
groundbreaking volume Empire, he was infamous across Europe for the
incendiary writings contained in this book. Books for Burning
consists of five pamphlets that Negri wrote between 1971 and 1977,
which attempt to identify and draw lessons from new conditions of
class struggle that emerged in the course of the 1970s. Conceived
as organizational hypotheses intended for debate among the members
of the political movements Workers' Power (Potere operaio) and
Organized Autonomy (Autonomia organizzata), these texts were later
misread and misrepresented by the Italian state in its attempt to
frame Negri as responsible for the assassination of former Italian
president Aldo Moro, as the leader of the Red Brigades, and as the
mastermind of an armed insurrection against the state. In the more
than twenty-five years since their first publication, these texts
have lost none of their originality, relevance or power to shock.
In a new preface, Negri demonstrates how his controversial work on
empire, biopolitics and immaterial labor developed out of concepts
and strategies first outlined in this book, and an editorial
introduction analyzes the role these texts played in Negri's trial
and in the criminalization of the Italian radical workers'
movement.
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