User:Artemis gryllaki/Special Issue 7

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Start up, Burn out: Life Hacks

Themes, Theory & Research

Burn Out Life Hacks Entrepreneurship Entreprecariat
Precarity Productiviy Procrastination Efficiency Insecurity
Flexibility Labour Rights Security Gig Economy 9-5
Alexa Optimisation Life Coach Positive Affirmations Ever-Working
Eliza Hackivism Hackerspace Artificial Intelligence Get Things Done Siri
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Entreprecariat is a portmanteau that combines entrepreneurialism and the precariat. As such, it captures both as coexisting axes of a semiotic square of the social. The entreprecariat refers to the reciprocal influence of an entrepreneurialist regime and pervasive precarity.

The entreprecariat is the semi-young creative worker who put effort in her own studio while freelancing for Foodora, the manager on the verge of a burnout, the employee who needs to reinvent himself as soon as his short-term contract is over, the fresh graduate who struggles to repay his loan with a top-notch university. As Guy Standing maintains, "the precariat consists of those who feel their lives and identities are made up of disjointed bits, in which they cannot construct a desirable narrative or build a career, combining forms of work and labour, play and leisure in a sustainable way."