Above and Beyond the Market
The Family, Social Reproduction, and Conservatism in Bernard Stiegler’s Politics of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Turner (0000-0002-2529-7213, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 68-85 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2021.1988379 |
| OpenAlex | W3201627820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Assessments of the impact of automation often emphasize the need to “denaturalize” work. To what extent is denaturalization successful in separating proposals regarding the future of work from existing assumptions about its value? This article will explore this question by reading Bernard Stiegler’s politics of work in the context of his understanding of the family. It will demonstrate that while he denaturalizes work he also naturalizes background assumptions regarding its relationship to social reproductive labor by claiming that the latter is “above and beyond the market.” This gesture reproduces gendered assumptions about the nature of work and fails to provide a critical account of the changing relationship between work, the family, and economic responsibility under neoliberalism. It will be concluded that Stiegler’s conservative approach to the relationship between work and the family shows that avoiding the unwitting naturalization of existing assumptions regarding work is a central problem for post-work critics
Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Naturalization · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Reading (process · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Digital Media and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy
What’s wrong with work?
Surrogate Humanity
Social Reproduction Theory
The future of employment
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism
Automation and Utopia
Fortunes of Feminism
Undoing work, rethinking community
Intersectionality and Social-Reproduction Feminisms
Winnicott, Participation and Gender
Fear and hope in an age of mass automation
Functionalist, Determinist, Reductionist
Gilbert Simondon and the philosophy of the transindividual
The refusal of work
Ideology and Post-structuralism after Bernard Stiegler
From resistance to invention in the politics of the impossible
The Problem with Work
The Hassle of Housework
Family Values
No Exit
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |