Deja Vu and the End of History

Déjà vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.” Through thinkers such as Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between “before” and “after,” cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.

https://www.amazon.com/Deja-Vu-End-History-Futures/dp/1781686122/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T1S49N4CWZNMZW93X1AZ


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State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious


Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.

In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.

https://www.amazon.com/State-Insecurity-Government-Precarious-Futures/dp/1781685967/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T1S49N4CWZNMZW93X1AZ