Foxconn anti-suicide measures
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Žižek recounts that Foxconn responded to a wave of worker suicides with three measures: making workers sign anti-suicide pacts, obliging them to denounce suicidal colleagues to factory authorities, and installing safety nets around high-rise factory buildings, the last because there is not enough floor space.
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“they had to sign anti-suicide pact, some kind of promise that they will not kill themselves”
“Foxconn now makes their employees... sign an anti-suicide pact... you will quickly report him”
“Foxconn put nets around the buildings—this is humanism—so that if you just... okay.”
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patriarchal caring charity human relations capitalism
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anticapitalist overload
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biopolitics
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Lawrence Eagleburger1John Holloway1William Blake1Decreux1Cabaret1Tiger Woods1André Gorz1Mary Magdalene1
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Žižek recounts that Foxconn responded to a wave of worker suicides with three measures: making workers sign anti-suicide pacts, obliging them to denounce suicidal colleagues to factory authorities, and installing safety nets around high-rise factory buildings, the last because there is not enough floor space., illustrating patriarchal caring charity human relations capitalism,anticapitalist overload,capitalism and alienation
Žižek describes Foxconn's biopolitical measures: employees must sign anti-suicide pacts, report depressed colleagues, and jump into safety nets. He calls this 'capitalism with the human face' and the boss comparing factory cohabitation to a zoo., illustrating biopolitics,capitalism with the human face
Foxconn responded to mass suicides among its workers by requiring them to sign anti-suicide pledges and by installing nets around buildings, Žižek calls this 'humanism' ironically, so that if you jump you are caught but still punished for attempting it., illustrating Apple/Foxconn,dehumanization of labor,ideological obscenity