Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age by Lazzarato, Maurizio
Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age by Lazzarato, Maurizio

Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age

A celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor...
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Author: Maurizio Lazzarato
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Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age by Lazzarato, Maurizio

Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age

$700.67
Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age by Lazzarato, Maurizio

Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age

$700.67
Author: Maurizio Lazzarato
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market.

In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innovation that has generated his best-known concepts, such as "immaterial labor." The book (published in France in 2009) is also groundbreaking in the way it brings Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari to bear on the analysis of concrete political situations and real social struggles, while making a significant theoretical contribution in its own right.

Lazzarato draws on the experiences of casual workers in the French entertainment industry during a dispute over the reorganization ("reform") of their unemployment insurance in 2004 and 2005. He sees this conflict as the first testing ground of a political program of social reconstruction. The payment of unemployment insurance would become the principal instrument for control over the mobility and behavior of the workers. The flexible and precarious workforce of the entertainment industry prefigured what the entire workforce in contemporary societies is in the process of becoming: in Foucault's words, a "floating population" in "security societies." Lazzarato argues further that parallel to economic impoverishment, neoliberalism has produced an impoverishment of subjectivity--a reduction in existential intensity. A substantial introduction by Jeremy Gilbert situates Lazzarato's analysis in a broader context.



Author: Maurizio Lazzarato
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/22/2017
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780262034869
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher in Paris. He is the author of Governing by Debt and Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, both published by Semiotext(e).

Andrew Goffey is Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the coeditor, with Éric Alliez, of The Guattari Effect and the translator of Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarre's Capitalist Sorcery, of Félix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies, and of work by Maurizio Lazzarato, Barbara Cassin, and Etienne Balibar. He is also coeditor of the journal Computational Culture.


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