Entreprecariat is a new book by the Italian writer, artist and designer Silvio Lorusso that takes aim at self-entrepreneurship, exploring 'the miseries of precarity' and 'the aesthetics of productive anxiety'.
Lorusso guides us through 'the entreprecariat', a world where change is natural and healthy, whatever it may bring. A world populated by motivational posters, productivity tools, mobile offices and self-help techniques. A world in which a mix of entrepreneurial ideology and widespread precarity is what regulates professional social media, online marketplaces for self-employment and crowdfunding platforms for personal needs. This is a book about entrepreneurialism but it is not a manual on how to make it. It is not a hagiography of visionaries like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. On the contrary, it describes the reality surrounding the so-called 'self-entrepreneurs', most commonly students, freelancers, unemployed (and sometimes even employees) who are pushed or forced to develop an entrepreneurial mentality to evade a growing precariousness that affects the professional, the economic and the existential sphere.
Welcome to the entreprecariat, where the entrepreneurial spirit is a curse rather than a blessing.
This new edition of the Entreprecariat, published seven years after the first and expanded with a new full chapter.
Set Margins', 300pp, 10cm x 15cm, illustrated paperback, 2026
