The Doubly Free Employee: The Exhausted Individual After its Decline

Authors

  • Arne Kellermann Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Keywords:

entreployee, sociology of work, capitalistic history of violence, neo-liberalism, social psychology, subjectification, redundancy

Abstract

Coming from the insight, that consciousness is basically shaped by the contemporary forms of surviving, this paper throws a glance on the actual constellation of wage labour. Criticizing the thesis of the entreployee [Arbeitskraftunternehmer] of H. J. Pongratz and G. G. Voß, it tries to exceed the limits of
post-marxist sociology of work. By putting the restricted thesis in the frame of today's condition of the capitalistic history of violence it puts the discussionof post-industrial wage labour back into its dialectic with its changed underlying totality. The neoliberal totality is marked as a totality of violent exclusion from the survival-assuring labour market. The paper draws an outline of subjectivity in times of the constitutive redundancy of every individual, by actualizing the psychoanalytical concepts of the adaptation mechanisms debeloped by Paul Parin.

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Published

2016-02-17

How to Cite

Kellermann, A. (2016). The Doubly Free Employee: The Exhausted Individual After its Decline. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 5(5), 103–131. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/818

Issue

No. 5 (2013): Critical Theory of Subjectivity

Section

Essays

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