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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of catastrophic precarity in the hypermodern era, the article tracks collective disorientation and catastrophic precarity across four registers—accumulation, time, space, and agency—before ending with a discussion of implications of the analysis for alternative orientations. The collective disorientation...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... what I call the fractious form, in which a tense encounter between different class actors under the regime of precarity becomes the genesis for a volatile cultural practice. The most extreme form of this process is the practice of rooftopping, a thrill-seeking subculture that has offshoots globally...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 372–394.
Published: 01 November 2018
... discourse of software craftspersonship is actively hostile, yet to which so-called literate programming practice is indifferent, program comments are traces of a mode of technical labor whose privilege and precarity both rest on its obscurity, an obscurity in no way resistant to reading. References...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 391–393.
Published: 01 November 2017
... with the precarity spreading to all social classes through the expansion of “cognitive labor.” This work producing and managing information underpins the rest of the discussion, which looks at its role in creating stress, overworked attention, and social anxiety. The themes are brought together through an assertion...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that grows through continued fidelity (to use a Badiouesque simile), the party changes and is changed in turn by the revolutionary subjectivities of its membership. This is a long way from E. P. Thompson and the Old Left, but it may be just what the organized Left needs in the age of precarity. The book...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 420–423.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and the prevailing capitalist norm toward worker precarity. In order to support this system, Douzinas explains, debt is transformed into a moral issue and, under neoliberal capital, into a moral concern that impacts the poor and the weak in ways that never touch the elites. While the excesses and immorality...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 430–458.
Published: 01 November 2022
... (Institut Teknologi Bandung). We are all very different, but I should say we come together probably because of our shared experience of precarity—Jakarta Institute of the Arts as well as Indonesia Art Institute lack funding for students’ support. I mean, we were rich at heart but poor economically...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 313–322.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., as the following essays demonstrate, hopes, dreams, moods, memories, longing, love, vulnerability, precarity, hauntings, and pain). In David Crouch's words, this expanded, affective sense of the sociocultural will always be “breaking through continuing meta-thinking to attend to people's living in the world...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., familiarity with learning and communication networks” for its own ends. Post-Fordism, in other words, integrates precarity, instability, and the desire for cooperation and education into its operation. The working life isn’t a continuous life but one constantly interrupted, subjected to periods of latency...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... endless array of images depicting desperate faces and floating bodies. This morbid display of precarity produces a hypervisibility of migrant death ( Mountz 2015) , which in turn is met by spectacular forms of border enforcement and securitization ( De Genova 2013) . Framed as rebutting the work...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
... introducing precarity into the heart of enterprise society. In his incisive analysis of the concept of human capital, Michel Feher (2009 : 26–27) contends that its main progenitors, Theodor Schultz and Gary Becker, were basically not neoliberal enough, given that their perspective remains limited...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... articulated in a complex web of commercial intertextuality, that becomes the main use-value of the product: it allows a process positioning, or ‘negotiation’ of the self in relation to the shifting demands of everyday life.” The precarities of neoliberalism, both in material terms and in terms of negotiation...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... where wages were lower and there was less regulation. Globalization had proved enormously disruptive—like Trump—and had placed workers in industrial regions in a situation of precarity. While Sanders had correctly indicated the problem for workers as an issue of out-of-control corporations moving...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 320–332.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the station so that she can take a picture; she approaches a few steps closer and takes one more picture. She goes up the stairs, profoundly marked, thinking to herself, “there but for the grace of God go I.” Current economic precarity makes the subway figure’s situation seem to the woman artist like...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 263–272.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to neoimperialism, actually existing communism has been replaced by an even more pervasive and pernicious capitalism, and globalization and neoliberalism have strengthened free market logic to intensify inequality and increase precarity on a global scale. Despite these major shifts, 1968 still looms large...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 192–213.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by whatever fires your imagination” ( Kulendran Thomas 2016 ). This “you” is not coextensive with the much larger group of workers deemed replaceable by machines, those for whom the automation of jobs promises only poverty and the kind of precarity that kills. Even confining our attention to the global West...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
...: the resolution of one crisis is the genesis of the next. Our GFC is the result of the crisis of the 1970s, which was resolved through offshoring, precarization, and automation, and by the vast investment in what Bifo ( Berardi 2009 ) calls semiocapitalism. In semiocapitalism, the major form of production...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of a theory of gender so much as the precarity of these invocations of both class and human nature. “While many criticize Firestone for her overly optimistic conception of technology,” Nina Power (2010 : 144) asserts that “it is on the more fundamental question of her definition of nature that her...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... system in the face of periodic disruptive events (Wilson 2012 ). A virus response held hostage by the chaotic gyrations of capital while disproportionately impacting people of color and essential workers living in economic precarity—in many cases one and the same—exposed the pernicious displacement...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2008
.... Inspired by iconic events like the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas, Mexico, utopian expressions of the new left utilize a conscious mix of traditional Marxist critique with more overtly utopian rhetoric of world without borders, exploitation, or precarity (Marcos and de Leon 2000) . Under the banners...
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