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Working Under Precarity: Work Affect and Emotional Labor
This module aims to provide an overview of some of the historical approaches to the relationship between affect, emotion and work, and to bring those to bear upon the contemporary politics of work under different contexts of precarity. Specifically, it examines the relation between work and affect under present conditions of post-Fordism and of the neoliberal organization of production, time, and subjectivity. Using cinematic texts as primary references, the goals of this module are to point to bothcapital's exploitation of affect, but also capital's production of affect, as these intersect with the concerns of gender and precarity.The following two sections provide two approaches for thinking about how forces of capital both exploit and produce affect. Each section provides different resources for thinking about how exploitation and affects can yield new subjectivities and different forms of sociality. These subjectivities and sociality do not necessarily reproduce capital, and can in fact yield forms of resistance. After discussing some of the relevant theoretical issues, each section then suggests ways that these can be understood through readings of films
Recommended from our members
Working Under Precarity: Work Affect and Emotional Labor
This module aims to provide an overview of some of the historical approaches to the relationship between affect, emotion and work, and to bring those to bear upon the contemporary politics of work under different contexts of precarity. Specifically, it examines the relation between work and affect under present conditions of post-Fordism and of the neoliberal organization of production, time, and subjectivity. Using cinematic texts as primary references, the goals of this module are to point to bothcapital's exploitation of affect, but also capital's production of affect, as these intersect with the concerns of gender and precarity.The following two sections provide two approaches for thinking about how forces of capital both exploit and produce affect. Each section provides different resources for thinking about how exploitation and affects can yield new subjectivities and different forms of sociality. These subjectivities and sociality do not necessarily reproduce capital, and can in fact yield forms of resistance. After discussing some of the relevant theoretical issues, each section then suggests ways that these can be understood through readings of films
Dalla Margherita all'Obelisco: arte fantastica italiana tra Roma e New York negli anni ’40 in Irene Brin Gaspero Del Corso e l’Obelisco
Prima dell'affermarsi di altre gallerie che fecero la storia dell'arte a Roma tra la fine degli anni '50 e l'inizio degli anni '70, la Galleria L'Obelisco (1946-1981) fu uno dei pochi luoghi nella Capitale a promuovere la ricerca artistica contemporanea con un'attività serrata, continua e sperimentale, aperta all'arte e al collezionismo italiani e stranieri. Sorta all'indomani della Liberazione, fu diretta da Gaspero del Corso e Irene Brin, influente interprete del più colto ed eclettico giornalismo di moda e protagonista del lancio internazionale del «made in Italy» dal dopoguerra in poi. Grazie al fine intuito, all'ampiezza di interessi, alla disponibilità verso il nuovo e al cóté mondano della coppia, la Galleria L'Obelisco non solo sostenne l'arte contemporanea presso intenditori, critici e artisti, ma si rivolse anche a un pubblico più vasto e variegato, innovando radicalmente le modalità espositive, comunicative e promozionali dell'arte all'insegna della contaminazione e del dialogo tra diversi ambiti della cultura. Il libro è la prima monografia sulla galleria romana: i contributi scientifici sui diversi aspetti della figura di Irene Brin e sull'attività de L'Obelisco sono affiancati da un ricco corredo fotografico, in parte inedito, e da regesti documentari e testimonianze, raccolte per l'occasione presso coloro che, a vario titolo, hanno vissuto quel pezzo fondamentale della storia dell'arte e della cultura del nostro paese