THE AGE OF PRECARITY

Crisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis a nd our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and by the undoing of social and political ties we inherited from modernity. Yet, traditional views of crises as just temporary setbacks do not seem to hold any long er/ this crisis seems permanent, with no way out and no alternatives on the horizon.Reconstructing a political genealogy of the term from the...[Read more]