自杀作证

S. Waters
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第二章考察了自杀信件作为一种见证当代职场极端痛苦的证词模式。在一个隐藏了劳动关系的经济秩序中,劳动关系为我们带来了服务和产品,自杀将人类的痛苦推向了表面,并将其推向了公开。在证词研究的基础上,我将遗书置于日常生活与极端生活之间的结合点,打破了两者之间的界限,迫使我们在日常生活中面对极端生活。虽然这些字母表达了特殊的创伤,但它们位于工作的日常、常规和功能空间中。最近的一些批评人士把当代的工作场所描绘成一个极端的场所,用大屠杀的历史隐喻来描述各种形式的管理野蛮和暴力。与这些表述相反,我认为最好从日常的角度来理解工作场所。这是一个由秩序、纪律和常规支配的空间,在这里,工作生活受到无休止的重复和重复的影响。然而,这种日常生活有一个独特的品质:工作自杀使极端痛苦变得可见,这不是一种特殊现象,而是嵌入社会生活的普遍空间中的一种痛苦。
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Suicide as Testimony
Chapter two examines suicide letters as a mode of testimony that bears witness to extreme suffering in the contemporary workplace. In an economic order that conceals the labour relationships that bring services and products to us, suicides push human suffering to the surface and force it out into the open. Drawing on testimony studies, I situate suicide letters at a juncture between the everyday and the extreme that unsettles the boundaries between the two and forces us to confront extremity in the everyday. Whilst these letters give expression to exceptional trauma, they are located within the quotidian, routine and functional spaces of work. Some recent critics have depicted the contemporary workplace as a site of extremity, drawing on the historical metaphor of the Holocaust to describe forms of managerial brutality and violence. Contrary to these representations, I suggest that the workplace is best understood in terms of its everydayness. This is a space governed by order, discipline and routine, where working life is subject to endless repetition and reiteration. Yet, this everydayness has a unique quality: work suicides make visible extreme suffering, not as an exceptional phenomenon, but one that is embedded within the universal spaces of social life.
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