...Precarity Lab Digital technologies have helped consolidate the wealth and influence of a small number of people. By taking advantage of flexible labor and by shifting accountability to individuals, sharing economy platforms have furthered insecure conditions for racial, ethnic, and sexual...

...Gabriel Giorgi The notion of precarity, central to the analysis of neoliberalism, shows a rhetorical and semantic instability between the exceptional and the normal, the individual and the collective, the social and the ontological. This instability is, I argue, at the core of the different...

...Tina M. Campt How do we engage a contemporary visual archive of blackness that is saturated by the proliferation and mass circulation of images of violence, antiblackness, and premature death? This article explores the labor required by visual enactments of black precarity in the work of filmmaker...

..., social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous peoples under US...

... are especially brittle, breaking off cleanly as the contingencies of their unstable bodies intervene. Here, the enduring temporality of the social is secondary to practices of being between emergence and collapse. Addressing sociality here is not a romantic celebration of precarity or resilient intimacies...

... this archive provides lessons on the distribution of wealth, precarity, and belonging in our world. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 Zadie Smith Nicki Minaj Psy pop queer Aesthetic categories are, in their definition, social: to describe something as belonging to an aesthetic category...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 late liberalism neoliberalism vulnerability precarity This tightly conceived collection provides us with a luminous set of ethnographic encounters with exhausted social worlds and the effort that people within them exert...

... the best workers tend to start the experiments. Then productivity increases will dip as the rest follow along. See Nilles, Making Telecommuting Happen . 51. Antonoff, “Push for Telecommuting.” 52. Hatton, Temp Economy . 53. For an analysis of the biopolitics of precarity, see...

... of the main characters) disturbs the pages of these novels, one way to apprehend this “‘return of the repressed’ class awareness” might be to read the struggles over status and value as allegories for class or, perhaps more precisely, as allegories for the precarity signaled in the contemporary economy...

... representation. Gabriel Giorgi’s “Improper Selves: Cultures of Precarity” discusses agency in his treatment of Latin American genres of precarious criminality. Giorgi argues that neoliberalism seeks to enclose the commons by inscribing “precarity” as a zone of criminal life. This genre juxtaposes...

... by a pervasive sense of precarity and relentless uncertainty that puts meaning and the social itself in question. We suggest that such afterworlds are characteristic of a broader historical moment characterized by the proliferation of disasters that are lived as endemic conditions: mass extinctions, 2...

... possessions: “We put our bodies on the line, because that's the only weapon we have. That's the only thing we were left with; we were left with our bodies. And we use those in protest.” 10 Indeed, Judith Butler observes that precarity can provide both the reason for and a potential form of activism...

... with the question of storytelling.” This roundtable takes up that ques- tion explicitly, reflecting on the ethics of methodology in creating narra- tives from documents that record grief, the precarity of survival, and the struggle for autonomy after slavery...

... that underlie it, manifests the ongoing cultural, political, and economic spirit of late colonialism. It is a mode of settler mastery that reads white precarity and dispossession through the normalization of Black and Indigenous precarity and dispossession in order to naturalize racism and colonialism while...

... and securitization—by which they mean “geopolitically inflected contexualization of the debate on safe space”—with a familiar subject of queer studies: sexual precarity on campus, as well as vulnerable student populations in need of protection through trigger warnings, campus alert systems, and Title IX safeguards...

... employment for gig economy jobs. The light-hearted tone of some of these stories disguises the growth of precarity within a neoliberal economy ensnared by COVID-19 containment measures. From pilots to design directors (whose “advice for others going through tough times is to be positive”), no one is immune...

... are already dreaming the messy, dirty end of this one? 10. Mackey, “Breath and Precarity,” 15 . 11. White, Dear Angel of Death , 125 . 12. Lyons, Vital Decomposition , 46 . 13. My attention to soil steps beside—but not past—these concerns; rather than orienting the question...

... are given the same valence, however. Rather, white supremacy nakedly sustains its own power via claims of vulnerability and precarity; further, white fragility is here performed via various invocations of slighted bodily and psychic sovereignty that in turn draws on both antiblack racism and the legacies...

... are economically precarious and who must often quit jobs or forgo education in order to care for sick or disabled family members. 23 In other words, the demand that family members care for one another too often for poor people is part of the process of debilitation, leaving them balanced between precarity...

... and the reproduction of the university through workers’ disavowal of the precarity of their workplaces. At stake in this shift is not simply a matter of prestige, the individual star power of faculty, or the relative autonomy of intellectual work as it was enabled by a Cold War, public-sphere model...