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Ivor Southwood has incisively tapped into the emotional landscape of the always-available, always-looking-for-work world of precarious labour - and passionately found a way to navigate around and beyond the incessant stupefaction. Writing, from the inside, about the monotonous unpredictability of intermittent work, the privatisation of welfare and its often absurdly punishing routines, an intimately managed emotional labour that is as exhausting as it is pointless, and covering theories of the spread of contingent work in an accessible way, Southwood has accomplished something extraordinary. Non-Stop Intertia registers the tragedy and the farce, elicits anger and laughter and, finally, shows that while it might not always be possible to withdraw one's labour by going on strike, it might be necessary to withhold the emotional connection that is demanded in the exchange. Non-Stop Inertia's witty riposte, in short, is to behave as the robot that we are expected to be, as a way beyond being treated as if one is. A beautiful book. --(Angela Mitropoulos, Queen Mary, University of London, author of Precari-Us?)
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In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications and rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are we really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep paralysis of thought and action, and that rather than being unquestionable or inevitable, the environment of personal flexibility and perpetual crisis which we now inhabit is ideologically constructed. Written from inside this system of precarious employment and debt-driven subjectivity, illustrating its arguments with actual examples and using theory to make connections and unlock meanings, the book shows how in our constant anxious pursuit of work and leisure we are running on the spot against a scrolling CGI backdrop. As performative labourers, full-time jobseekers, social networkers and consumer-citizens, we are so preoccupied by the business of 'being ourselves' that our real identities are forgotten and our dreams of resistance buried. This text rejects the positive script of the virtual state and suggests that in order to instigate genuine change we must refuse to go with the flow.
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I have had my own suspicions along these lines and Southwood confirms that my increasing unease has a basis beyond my imagination. The book is short and to the point and provides excellent examples of the ideas it puts across. Its dry humour that had me laughing out loud again and again. If you can no longer bring yourself to declare with a straight face that you are "passionate about customer service", to consider all aspects of your life in terms of what they add your CV, to make yourself contactable at all times, to commute long hours as though it were nothing...this book may just help you put your finger on exactly why you feel like your dignity is being eroded.
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This book articulates the sense of what it is like to live, to be alive, in a world that not everyone can so easily adapt and fit into and actually might not want to adapt and fit into the way it is currently formatted for most. It's a book that makes you realise zombies are real and that you might be one of them. It is passionately written and current. And if you want to know what it's like living in the UK and how the buzz words of corporate life are keeping you on your toes gong no where - this is the book.
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