Süreyyya Evren, Blackmailed by Freedom: Precarious Life and Depressive Art, 2016, Publication

The principle of non-security today is witnessing an imagined time when total reorganization of a life form and its automatic adaptation are possible. Flexibility mentioned through post-Fordist conditions of production reflected onto social relations without being limited to pure labour organisation is different to the blackmailing of her worker by the boss. This book is the layer that intersects who blackmails whom, and how. Therefore, we need to leave the job security terminology of the precariat state of mind and their concrete conditions, to be able to talk about the options of art in a precarious era.

Luckily, with a free self, dictated by the inner voice, the artist is now impris- oned to a depressive art. Freedom, in exchange for a precarious life that did as much blackmailing as it could, dictates the requirement of a voluntary self-formalization. In a precarious life, freedom does not impose anything on you: You have to willingly accept anything; otherwise, there is no punitive enforcement other than the elapsing of the precarious life.... Having tasted this non-security, it makes more sense to ask the question: Is freedom only made of blackmailing after all?