The vitality of labour and its ghosts

A little reflected upon aspect of capitalism is that its reproduction relies on a sense that there exist large-scale generative processes that persist through time (Bear, Ho, Tsing & Yanagisako 2015). People from economists and bureaucrats to precarious workers across the world attempt to tap i...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/terrain,
Autor principal: Bear, Laura
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Terrain 2018
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:A little reflected upon aspect of capitalism is that its reproduction relies on a sense that there exist large-scale generative processes that persist through time (Bear, Ho, Tsing & Yanagisako 2015). People from economists and bureaucrats to precarious workers across the world attempt to tap into and make visible these powers through various conducts of productivity (Bear 2015). It is this sense that allows us to hold fast to the ideas of abundance, growth and fertility even as we witness t...