Post-Fordist resistance must escape the motivation and demotivation binary

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

• QUESTION: What would disidentification from the control program that is not merely apathy or motivation actually look like institutionally?
• XREF: connects to: Politics must escape the motivation-despair binary capitalism prescribes. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 68; Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1405; Ambivalent retreat and uncoordinated refusal form a generative counter-speculative politics — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 346 (+1 more)

Related

• Politics must escape the motivation-despair binary capitalism prescribes. (similarity 0.92)
• Anti-control politics must invent discontent forms beyond wages (similarity 0.88)
• Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ambivalent retreat and uncoordinated refusal form a generative counter-speculative politics #complicates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 346
• Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1405