| Abstrak/Abstract |
This article presents a reflection on the constitutive relation of youth, work, and leisure in post-Fordist society using the documentary film The Social Dilemma as an entry point. The film has been praised as successful in delivering critics toward digital capitalism. Its content builds upon the idea that the political economy of giant platforms has caused serious problems on the vulnerability of young people’s wellbeing and their precarity of work. Different from previous comments, this article argues that The Social Dilemma does not only convey critique of digital capitalism and youth’s wellbeing but also represents a relational narrative of work leisure among young people in post-Fordist society, which is exploitative in its character.
Building upon previous studies on youth, work, leisure, and subjectivity this article tries to
offer a critical reflection based on the respective film that the digital arena in the post
Fordist context has created a transformation of leisure into labor. This transformation has
further produced a binary subjectivity cultivated by the biopolitical power of immaterial
labor through massive digital infrastructure that serves as the main characteristic of post
Fordist society. |
