A Semiotic Phenomenology of Homelessness and the Precarious Community: A Matter of Boundary

摘要: My dissertation focuses on the articulation of concepts precarity —i.e., temporary, affective, creative, immaterial and insecure labor—and community in an overheating system. site inquiry is homelessness broadly, but more specifically labor panhandling identity “the panhandler.” I recognize that primary theorizations have located it as a problem economy. Others looked at from sociological domain. work looks diffuse across social, political, communal systems, primarily effect manifests varying levels scale. Narrowing global vision such instability insecurity to local landscape—to streets, corners, traffic, people who occupy infrastructural liminal zones whose lives are precariously bound forces speed heat—reveals critical nature elemental metaphors. That say, if we might accept thesis epoch which time subsumes space place, another way talking about heat, intensities, then communication over-sped, overheated system dire straights. Precarity, argue, not causally linked breakdown economy or affiliative bonds networks—it does precede presage these shutdowns. Rather shutdown. Precarity may now be viewed management organization around economic insecurities. use ethnographic data institutional meetings, conversations with key stakeholders scale, well textual analyses vi policies, news coverage, public responses those texts order understand how precarious communicative conditions affect structuration politics.