{"id":1946,"date":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:26:25","slug":"state-of-insecurity-government-of-the-precarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1737-state-of-insecurity\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1947 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lorey_State_of_Insecurity-max_221-54254a935ea7183220057aa3ddc0ad7f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lorey_State_of_Insecurity-max_221-54254a935ea7183220057aa3ddc0ad7f.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lorey_State_of_Insecurity-max_221-54254a935ea7183220057aa3ddc0ad7f-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>by Isabell Lorey<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Aileen Derieg<br \/>\nForeword by Judith Butler<\/p>\n<div class=\"body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe important contribution of this thoughtful work is to let us understand finally that precarity is not a passing or episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time.\u201d<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\u2013 Judith Butler, from the foreword<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Isabell Lorey<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2015<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}