"I am a fetcher”:visual poetry and the monotony of life on the edge

“I am a fetcher” is a pattern poem. By presenting this pattern poem, I wish to show how visual poetry captures the organization of ‘training’, the dimension of subjectification and the ‘reactivating of sensuousness’ in the attempt to understand how young people struggle on the edge of the educational system

Afstand, modstand og mestring: Poetiske analyser af unges subjektiveringsprocesser

An increasing number of young people under the age of 30 are neither in education nor in employment. Politically, as well as in the academic world, there is an interest in finding out ‘what works’ in order to help the young. However, there is also a lack of research in Denmark, which explores the complexity of this subject matter. Using poetic inquiry asthe method, this article aims to investigate how subjectivities of young people at the margins of education are formed in processes in which education is the vehicle. Poetic inquiry gives access to the complexity that characterizes the problem area related to young people at the margins of education, and this article will explore the versatility ofprocesses of subjectification in the politically influenced context in which education is seen as the solution. The analyzes show how various forms of ‘distance’ influence the processes of subjectification and how this occurs in processes of simultaneous submission and mastery of those forms of distance

Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees

Precarisation’ is one of the concepts that has become important in efforts to explain how neoliberal politics and changed economic conditions produce new forms of marginalization and increased insecurity. The aim of this article is to examine how subjectivity is produced among young Danish employees through socio-material processes of precarization at workplaces and employment projects. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with 35 young employees and young people ‘Neither in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET), the three case examples show how processes of precarization, rooted in global economic and political conditions, can be understood as situated contextual practices. It is demonstrated how being positioned as an easily replaceable source of labor is shaping young people’s processes of subjectification

NDC1: a crucial membrane-integral nucleoporin of metazoan nuclear pore complexes

POM121 and gp210 were, until this point, the only known membrane-integral nucleoporins (Nups) of vertebrates and, thus, the only candidate anchors for nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) within the nuclear membrane. In an accompanying study (see Stavru et al. on p. 477 of this issue), we provided evidence that NPCs can exist independently of POM121 and gp210, and we predicted that vertebrate NPCs contain additional membrane-integral constituents. We identify such an additional membrane protein in the NPCs of mammals, frogs, insects, and nematodes as the orthologue to yeast Ndc1p/Cut11p. Human NDC1 (hNDC1) likely possesses six transmembrane segments, and it is located at the nuclear pore wall. Depletion of hNDC1 from human HeLa cells interferes with the assembly of phenylalanine-glycine repeat Nups into NPCs. The loss of NDC1 function in Caenorhabditis elegans also causes severe NPC defects and very high larval and embryonic mortality. However, it is not ultimately lethal. Instead, homozygous NDC1-deficient worms can be propagated. This indicates that none of the membrane-integral Nups is universally essential for NPC assembly, and suggests that NPC biogenesis is an extremely fault-tolerant process