He is the author of Rethinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on
Post-Fordism and Penal Politics (Ashgate, 2006).
This chapter sheds light on the shift in historical narratives and national imaginaries, paired with neo-liberalization,
post-Fordism, and German reunification, that has impacted the radical right in Germany.
Finance capitalism and the knowledge-based social-factory model of
post-Fordism have brought us automation, the precariat, outsourcing, the economic exploitation of users via social media, the general indifference of technology to the redistribution of capital, offshore accounts, artificial intelligence, and the rise of fascist nationalism.
Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art: 'The art field is a space of wild contradiction and phenomenal exploitation.' Once the European troika has finished plundering infrastructure and resources in Greece, crisis-as-capital will perhaps be the only remaining 'resource' from an outside perspective.
On the left it was the sociologists, geographers and the new discipline of cultural studies, being developed by people like Stuart Hall, who were writing about the growing rust belt in the US--the decline of heavy industry and its relocation to the 'Asian Tigers'--and about the rise of flexible specialisation and
post-Fordism within the advanced capitalist economies.
to construct a vocabulary to talk about the "new economies" (
post-Fordism, globalization, the centrality of market economies, the new surveillance techniques of the war on terrorism, etc.) and their complex relations to cultural production in the present moment, where capitalism seems nowhere near the point of its exhaustion.
This revelation resonates diachronically as well, as Breu suggests that the base-superstructure dynamic also organizes the relationship between early twentieth-century Fordism and late twentieth-century
post-Fordism. Revealing the Fordist substratum that continues to operate (albeit in a displaced and generally invisible way) in our post-Fordist moment, Breu posits a continuity in the twentieth century's economic development and cultural output that he thinks postmodern metafiction and late-capital immaterialism all too frequently ignore.
Others have seen these terms as designating some quite specific mechanisms of power and government, which--on some such accounts--assume particular prominence in the epoch of '
post-Fordism'.
A more useful point of departure for a process of rethinking religion, and the wider spatial, social, political and economic transformations within which it is implicated, may be to look at the series of changes in society that have been variously designated in terms of 'disorganised' and 'flexible' capitalism, '
post-Fordism', 'post-modernity' and 'neoliberalism'.
The process of abstraction that
post-Fordism uses to reproduce itself tends to bring forward a hyper-idealist understanding of our life-world.