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"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"--
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Lorey draws from the history of political sovereignty, a feminist critique of ideas of masculine independence, the Marxist idea of reproductive labor, and an analysis of neoliberal forms of induced destitution, and defines how new forms of power converge at the present time for new regulatory purposes: the production of insecurity for the purposes of extending securitarian forms of power. She highlights precarization as a process that lays the foundation for the need for security as the ultimate political ideal, which works to amass power within the state and corporate institutions at the same time that it produces a new kind of subject: in place of critique and resistance, populations are now defined by their need to be alleviated from insecurity, valorizing forms of police and state control, promises of global investment, and institutions of global governance. Seven chapters are: precariousness and precarity; biopolitical governmentality; welfare state and immunization; precarization as an instrument of governing; virtuosity and the post-Fordist public sphere; care crisis and care strike; exodus and constituting. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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