The knowledge worker and the projectified self
Domesticating and disciplining creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21189695 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yannick Kalff (0000-0003-1595-175X, corresponding author), Yannick Kalff Yannick Kalff |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.11.1.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2622541752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
Since the 1970s, projects have become a widespread form of work and labour organisation. They represent complex temporary endeavours and suggest spontaneity and flexibility, albeit reliant on bureaucratic structures. In contrast to this, projects can also be seen as metaphors for late modern biographies and socialisation. Both notions directly affect knowledge work by domesticating knowledge and creativity to fit valorisation processes. Within obscured power relations, a subjectivising antinomy of predictability and flexibility arises: the projectified self. This form of subjectivity domesticates the knowledge worker contributing to new vulnerabilities to precarity due to flexible, spontaneous and uncertain biographies
Aesthetics · Antinomy · Art · Creativity · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Precarity · Sociology · Subjectivity · Communication · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
On Justification
The Entrepreneurial Self
The Rise of the Creative Class
The spark in the engine
Effects of project-based research work on the career paths of young academics
Weber and Foucault
Project Work
Management of human capital
The governing of the self/the self-governing self
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture
Against postmodernism
The precariousnesses of young knowledge workers
The New Spirit of Capitalism
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
White Collar
On Creativity
Control Societies
A Precariat Charter
The Appeal to 'Professionalism' as a Disciplinary Mechanism
Man as subject or project
The Weariness of the Self
Undoing the Demos
Bounded or boundaryless? An empirical investigation of career boundaries and boundary crossing
Career as a Project of the Self and Labour Process Discipline
The knowledge worker is dead
Assumptions, Assertions and the Need for Evidence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |