State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

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.<br><br>In <i>State of Insecurity</i> 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.