The Right to Debilitate: The Workings of Global Capitalism and the Precaritization of Subjects in Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft.
This article focuses on Hans-Christian Schmid's 2009 documentary Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft as an example of how subjects are exposed to, embedded in, and exploited by global capitalism. Building on Jasbir Puar's concept of debilitation, the article examines the types of subjectivities that...
| Publicado en: | Feminist German Studies Vol. 35; pp. 110 - 135 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2019
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