The Law of Diminishing Returns: by Sean O'Brien

“… The essay examines the representation of precarity in the BBC two series, The Fall (2013-), starring Gillian Anderson as detective superitendent Stella Gibson and Jamie Dornan as serial killer as Paul Spector. In the series, institutions of social reproduction are reaveled to be sclerotic, examplified not only in the austerity policies of fiscally insolvent national governments but also in the family and the couple, social forms integral to a system of crises management that depends upon feminized reproductive work. …”
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