\u2022\tThis project will place the film \u2018Sorry We Missed You\u2019 (2019) within the territory of biopolitics, in order to understand the relationship between the worker and their employer.
\n\u2022\t\u2018Sorry We Missed You\u2019 is a film set in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, following the Turner family where parents, Abby and Ricky, work within the gig economy.
\no\tAbby works as an outsourced, in-home care worker.
\no\tRicky is a delivery driver, mockingly referred to by his son as a \u201cwhite van man\u201d.
\n\uf0a7\tAs a contemporary film, this project shall be contextualised against the backdrop of \u2018Capitalist Realism\u2019: the pervading atmosphere that capitalism is the only possible economic system.
\n\u2022\tWorkers that are self-employed or are on zero-hour contracts are referred to as \u2018precarious workers\u2019.
\no\tPrecarity is anxiety that lacks a definite object.
\n\u2022\t Paolo Virno empirically observes these workers to contain the qualities of opportunism, fear and cynicism.
\no\tThese qualities alienate workers from their social ties as their morals are uprooted and knowledge is fixed to capital, creating ambivalence.
\n\u2022\tIvor Southwood\u2019s first-hand account of this sector echoes Virno arguing that workers suffer from inertia as they can no longer separate work from their private life.
\n\u2022\tThe relationship is biopolitical as the relation between worker and employer is constituted by the originary bond of sovereignty to bare life.
\n\u2022\tOver the course of the film, the bare life of the worker is demonstrated by the violence and exploitation exerted towards Abby and Ricky, for the goal of maximising their bodies potentiality to gain capital for their sovereign employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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