Situating self-precarisation: cultural production, subjectification and resistance in kleines postfordistisches Drama&apos;s <i>Kamera Läuft! </i>

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Situating self-precarisation: cultural production, subjectification and resistance in kleines postfordistisches Drama's Kamera Läuft!

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In the current conditions of governance, cultural producers seem to willingly subordinate themselves to the dispositions of power, by aligning to the neoliberal model of labour through the adoption of entrepreneurial self-practices. This article explores how the concept of ‘self-precarisation’ is debated and negotiated through Kamera Läuft! ( Camera Rolling! ), a video project made in 2004 by the Berlin-based group kleines postfordistisches Drama (Small postFordist Drama). Situating the everyday lived experiences of cultural producers in a public sphere, kleines postfordistisches Drama problematises the possibilities for critical agency and collective resistance under the conscious and voluntary acceptance of precarious labour in the 21st century.

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[2] Berardi, F. (2009) The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy , Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

[3] Berardi, F. (2010) Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation , New York: Autonomedia.

[4] Boltanski, L. & E. Chiapello (2007) The New Spirit of Capitalism , London: Verso.

[5] Colectivo Situaciones. (2007) ‘Something more on research militancy: Footnotes on procedures and (in)decisions’ in S. Shukaitis, D. Graeber & E. Biddle (eds) Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization , Oakland: AK Press: 73–93.

[6] Feher, M. (2009) ‘Self-appreciation; or, the aspirations of human capital’, Public Culture , 21 (1): 21–41.

[7] Fisher, M. (2009) Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Ropley: O Books.

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[14] Global Project / Coordination des Intermittents et Précaires d'Île de France (2004) ‘Spectacle inside the state and out: Social rights and the appropriation of public spaces; The battles of the French intermittents’, transversal . Accessed April, 1, 2014 from http://eipcp.net/transversal/0704/intermittents/en.

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