...Lisa Adkins Prior to the recent global crisis a consensus was emerging that post-Fordism had ushered in a new sexual contract, one characterized not by exclusion and containment, but by the prospecting for potential, a prospecting that located women’s labor not as a reserve for capital...

... that characterizes post-Fordism and contingent labor as a point of departure, I note that this marks a traversal of the classically contractarian boundary between the temporally circumscribed sale of “one’s own labor” and life construed as property. Yet, rather than follow theories of the biopolitical in positing...

...Elizabeth R. Johnson Autonomous Marxism has generated a lexicon for responding to transformations in human labor, particularly around the role of technological development. Autonomists have mapped how the conditions of post-Fordism have put elements of the mind, sociability, virtuosity—or “the soul...

... of these transformations to wages for the development of a relevant politics of the post-Fordist wage? Can post-Fordist wages be challenged from within? © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 financialization Georg Simmel money post-Fordism wages References Adkins Lisa . 2012 . “ Out of Work or Out...

... democratization but also by its turn from Fordism to post-Fordism: the shrinking of the industrial sec- tor, the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, the consolidation of land holdings in the hands of a few large agribusiness concerns, and the concomitant mechanization of most farm production, all leading...

... contestations of who and what counts as human. Although Virno has not directly engaged the Anthropocene, the anthropos is at the core of his analysis of post-Fordism, a flexible form of accumulation that connects disparate modes and places of production. The current economic regime, he argues, mobilizes...

... directly against autonomous organization within the plants.29 More important, the radical transformation of the Fordist system of production within the Ameri- can auto industry lays the groundwork for the transformation of labor in post-Fordism generally. The image of the league s undramatic end...

... . 2012 . The Meanings of Work: Essay on the Affirmation and Negation of Work . Leiden : Brill . Aranda Julieta Wood Brian Kuan Vidokle Anton . 2011 . Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art . Berlin : Sternberg Press . Arvidsson Adam...

... Alquati often stressed how social struggles and the refusal of labor accelerated industrial automation and the dissemina- tion of information technologies. Labor resistance pushed the information revolution in the passage from Fordism to post-Fordism. But post-Fordism is not only the regime...

... of the planet in the face of the Anthropocene? How are care of the self and care of the Earth brought together to define new concepts of welfare and the human (see Bauer and Bhan this issue)? What might be achieved by destabilizing the sequencing of Fordism and post-Fordism in a place like South Africa...

... ignored the ecological dimensions of post-Fordism—its foundations in extractive energy econo- mies, its links to the accelerating financialization of nature under the banner of so-called green capitalism, its harnessing of nonhuman capacities, and its wildly uneven toxic geographies. This lack...

... , eds. 2011 . Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art . New York : Sternberg Press . Benjamin Walter . 1986 . “ The Author as Producer .” In Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Reflections , edited and translated by Demetz Peter , 220...

... into capitalist processes of accumulation such that labor ceases to be a special, separate practice distinct from other human activities. As Paolo Virno puts it, under post-Fordism, there is not a clean, well-defined threshold separating labor time from non- labor time. 6 Instead, that distinction between labor...

... that extended to even a small percentage of trans workers, even at the height of Fordism, particularly when we're thinking of feminized work or workers. This poses a problem for a trans analysis of labor that relies on a narrative of post-Fordism that locates a shift toward labor precarity in general...

... diverted into debates about the manifold pleasures (or irrelevancy) of consumer capital- ism, the contested impact of post-Fordism, the rise of Thatcher(ism), and the complicated genealogies of authoritarian statism and neoliberalism. Those debates sometimes yielded useful observations...

... such as housing) to appreciate without discernible limit. This peculiar combination of fiscal austerity and financial abundance was to become an enduring feature of US and other Anglo economies from the mid-1980s onward. Post-Fordism, then, has been able to survive to the extent that it offered...

... most problematical indeed In a manner similarly problemati- cal, postmodernism has been determined as post-Fordism, post-use-value, postperformativity postrepresentation, posthumanism, and so on. Interpreters crave a history...

... Taken a Knock,” Economist, Octo- ber 3, 2009; and Kevin Rudd, “The Global Financial Crisis,” The Monthly, February 2009, 20–29. 29 Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell, “Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After-­Fordist Crisis and Global-­Local Disorder,” in Post-­Fordism...

... americanized us. 6 We may say that Ameri­ canization does not travel well. Twentieth-century French accounts of America all draw on this meaning, which is unanimously adopted against post-World War I Fordism that is, when America became a world power to which France owed its immense war debts. Every­ thing...

... a “his- torical fact.” Capitalism historicizes metahistory (Virno 2015: 161). What Virno posits in his early writings on formal subsumption is further devel- oped in his later writings on post-Fordism and real subsumption. What con- temporary capitalism puts to work is not just actualized potential...