Carolina Quotesaffective labor is biopolitical production in that it directly produces social relationships and forms of life. … When affective production becomes part of waged labor it can be experienced as extremely alienating: I am selling my ability to make human relationships, something extremely intimate, at the command of the client and the boss.
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“affective labor is biopolitical production in that it direct…” Antonio Negri. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-74016F2E2C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/74016f2e2c
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