State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious, Paperback/Isabell Lorey

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. About the Author: Isabell Lorey is a Political Theorist at the European Institute of Progressive Cultural Policies in Berlin and teaches Social Science, Cultural and Gender studies at several universities in Europe.