BOOK; A Thousand Machines by Gerald Raunig.
Raunig includes in his discussion an account of the so-called “precariat” of migrant workers, sans papiers, and the “digital bohème”.
This precariat is seen as distinct from—both a result of and a response
to—the increasing precarization of labor as seen in the millions of
people in insecure jobs.
Where theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman have responded to the
processes of globalization by highlighting the existence of distinct
groups of relocated people—what Bauman calls the “tourists” and
“vagabonds” of postmodern freedom and slavery—Raunig pursues the
connections between Marx’s theory of the lumpen proletariat and the more
recent precariat. However, he argues that the precariat does have an
active role to play (unlike the lumpen proletariat) and that the
processes of precarization can be turned against the state in
potentially revolutionary ways.
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