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WORKRETHINK · Rethinking Work: Intellectual Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis in French Film and Media

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-09-01 → 2018-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 173 076 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Културните и интелектуалните реакции във Франция към финансовата криза от 2008 г. се анализират чрез текстове на философи, икономисти и френски филми. Това помага да се разбере как се променя разбирането за работата при нарастващо неравенство и технологичен напредък.

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Rethinking Work: Intellectual Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis in French Film and Media

My project examined cultural and intellectual responses in France to the 2008 global financial crisis. This encompassed conceptualizations of the crisis by French philosophers and economists, (re-)conceptualizations of ideas surrounding the world of work following the crash, and the ways in which French cinema and media have represented and responded to the crash. I divided my research into three overall objectives, which were to research and provide critical accounts of: 1. Recent texts by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on the future of work in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis; 2. The work of French economists responding to the crisis, especially Frédéric Lordon and the play he wrote about the crisis; 3. How the world of work and the financial crisis have been represented, discussed and responded to in French fiction, art and documentary films since 2008. The host institution for the project was the Research Institute on Cinema and the Audio-visual (Institut de recherche sur le cinéma et l’audiovisuel, IRCAV), a research laboratory at the university Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where cutting-edge academic work on film and media takes place. My project was conceived in a context in which Europe has witnessed economic crises, financialization, growing inequality and debt, yet also responses to these phenomena in, for example, social movements advocating debt relief and calls for a citizens’ basic income. At the same time, since the 1970s, many traditional forms of work have become increasingly redundant due to technological advances, globalization, and other historical factors. France has been at the forefront of movements trying to respond to these phenomena. The project is important as it addresses the urgent question of how we are to understand one of the fundamental historical events of our time – the 2008 financial crisis – and its significance for the future of France and Europe. The widespread sense that the underlying problems of the economy have not been remedied ten years on from the crisis means that my work could hardly be timelier. The relative obscurity of the financial mechanisms involved means this is an area that tends to remain hidden from public view, and it is an innovation of my project to focus on how these issues have been rendered visible in images.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Social critics have observed how, since the 1970s, many forms of work have become increasingly redundant due to technological advances. At the same time, Europe has witnessed economic crises, financialization, growing inequality and debt, yet also responses to these phenomena in, for example, movements advocating debt relief and a citizens’ basic income. These issues have become particularly acute in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In France since the crisis there has been an increase in rhetoric surrounding the notion of work as well as many films engaging with this issue.My project will investigate the contemporary French critique of economy and how film and other audio-visual media have been used to communicate that critique. Responses to the crisis by intellectuals and filmmakers often involve a reconceptualization of work. A key focus will be to investigate the communicability of complex philosophical, economic and sociological ideas through films and other audio-visual media. This will encompass the appearance of intellectuals and their ideas in such forms as documentary, fiction, art film and satire, but also the use of online pedagogical videos by such individuals. Setting such ideas and media in their social, political and historical context, I will also report findings on the reception of these phenomena.While previous research on work in film has tended to focus on industrial labour, I want to make an intervention in the field by looking at contemporary forms of work, especially that of the financial sector which generally remains hidden from public view. I will develop my skills at the host institution, where cutting-edge academic work on film is being conducted, while France more generally is the site of the texts I shall study and whose authors I hope to interview. Outputs will include screenings, seminars, journal articles and a conference. These will galvanize interest and help improve understanding of an urgent problem affecting Europe.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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UNIVERSITE PARIS III SORBONNE NOUVELLE · PARISКоординаторФранция