![]() ![]() Yet even those within relatively stable forms of employment are not immune from precarity. In Time is, in effect, the first science fiction film about precarity – a condition that describes an existential precidament as much as it refers to a particular way of organising work.Īt the most simple level, precarity is one consequence of the “post-Fordist” restructuring of work that began in the late 1970s: the turn away from fixed, permanent jobs to ways of working that are increasingly casualised. The decadent rich have centuries of empty time available to fritter away, while the poor are always only days or hours away from death. To survive any longer, they must earn extra time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given only a year more to live. Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. Mark Fisher – Essay ‘Tijdstrijd’ (Illustratie Wouter Medaer) ![]()
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