Governmental Precarization

Precarious body/images

07 PRECARIOUSNESS

The precarious and the immune are no longer only in a relation of opposites in post-Fordist societies, but rather more and more also in a relation of overlapping, tending, in fact, to become indistinguishable.

It is evident that art is not going to redeem us—and it is not its function to do so.

In Walter Benjamin’s understanding, the use of allegory is
typical of Baroque Art: Man acknowledges his guilty passion for this world in the moment of its decay.

Under post-Fordist conditions, the capitalisation of the immaterial work has managed to be integrated into artistic labour.

It is necessary to promote and ensure the democratic “distribution of the sensible”.