Name: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious
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Author: Judith Butler
ISBN: 9781781685969

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State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

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Physical Book

Author

Preface by

Translated by

Publisher

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

148

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 13.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781781685969

Synopsis "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. In State of Insecurity, 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.

Judith Butler

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Judith Pamela Butler is a neo-materialist and post-structuralist Jewish-American philosopher who has dedicated herself to studying the fields of feminism, political philosophy, and ethics, and has been one of the foundational theorists of queer theory

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