Just-in-time capitalism rewires workers’ nervous systems for perpetual instability

Evidence

As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems. To function effectively as a component of just-in-time production you must develop a capacity to respond to unforeseen events, you must learn to live in conditions of total instability, or ‘precarity’, as the ugly neologism has it. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Deep Listening’s theme of bodies being reshaped by their soundscape/environment. — connects to: Economic institutions perpetuate themselves through reproducing workers’ consciousness — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1130; Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42; ADHD and dyslexia are pathologies of late capitalist control circuits — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 54 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic institutions perpetuate themselves through reproducing workers’ consciousness #expands (0.82) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1130
• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42