Anti-control politics must invent discontent forms beyond wages

Evidence

What must be discovered is a way out of the motivation/demotivation binary, so that disidentification from the control program registers as something other than dejected apathy. One strategy would be to shift the political terrain – to move away from the unions’ traditional focus on pay and onto forms of discontent specific to post-Fordism. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 68

Categorization

• SEED: A seed for exploring what a post-pay union politics organized around boredom, attention, and post-Fordist malaise could look like.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-capitalist protest becomes carnivalesque background noise without an alternative model — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 32; Governments redirect working-class discontent against weaker groups to enable capital-friendly policy — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 259

Related

• Post-Fordist resistance must escape the motivation and demotivation binary (similarity 0.88)
• Politics must escape the motivation-despair binary capitalism prescribes. (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Governments redirect working-class discontent against weaker groups to enable capital-friendly policy #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 259