the art of not becoming accustomed to anything

The art of not becoming accustomed to anything
Precarious employment in flexible capitalism

«Interns, temporary agency workers, people on job creation schemes, and pseudo-freelances make up the vast reserve army of workers in precarious employment. For the majority, standards such as productivity or flexibility have become second nature. In this respect, they are the avant-garde of post-Fordism, constantly opening up new avenues of self-exploitation.

(...) Values such as autonomy and self-realisation, along with feelings, experiences, creativity, which once were deployed to counter capitalist commoditisation, have now become significant raw material salvaged for economic ends.»

[Klaus Ronnenberger, para a springerin, via eurozine]