@article{2006:weiskopf:a_snake,
title = {“A snake’s coils are even more intricate than a mole’s burrow.” Individualization and Subjectification in Post-disciplinary Regimes of Work},
year = {2006},
note = {In contemporary discourse it is almost commonplace to describe
societies and work relations as highly individualized. In this article
we develop a conceptual framework that enables us to discuss processes
and practices of individualization as political technologies.
Following a line of thinking influenced by Michel Foucault and Gilles
Deleuze, we first illustrate three different regimes of work. The main
focus is on elaborating and illustrating characteristics of the
post-disciplinary regime of work which allows us to systematize
fundamental shifts in the way of organizing and managing work. We then
analyze contemporary strategies for producing the "appropriate
individual" as "technologies of modulation" that focus on the
production of the autonomous, flexible and adaptable subject. We
suggest that these strategies are highly ambivalent and must not be
seen in a deterministic way. They are necessarily an interplay of
technologies that determine the conduct of individuals and
"technologies of the self". This is reflected in the process of
subjectification that contains both possibilities for increased
subjection and for self-creation.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {395--419},
author = {Weiskopf, Richard and Loacker, Bernadette},
volume = {17},
number = {4}
}