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Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France (2020)
Book

Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profoun... Read More about Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France.

Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’ (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that ‘man is a political animal because he is a literary animal’. He goes on to relate this characteristic of ‘literarity’... Read More about Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’.

Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics (2020)
Journal Article

Michel Houellebecq has gained a reputation for combining left-wing critiques of neo-liberal capitalism with reactionary laments at the decline of nation, religion, honest labour, and the patriarchal family. Critics typically thus either declare the n... Read More about Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics.