PRECARITY: A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF EMBODIED CAPITALISM

Vassilis Tsianos [University of Hamburg] and Dimitris Papadopoulos [Cardiff University]

A. Introduction

There is an underlying assumption to the current debates about class composition in post-Fordism: this is the assumption that immaterial work and its corresponding social subjects form the centre of gravity in the new turbulent cycles of struggles around living labour. This paper explores the theoretical and political implications of this assumption, its promises and closures. Is immaterial labour the condition out of which a radical socio-political transformation of contemporary post-Fordist capitalism can emerge? Who’s afraid of immaterial workers today? (more…)