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Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism - Couverture souple

Pfannebecker, Mareile

 
9781786997289: Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1786997282 ISBN 13 : 9781786997289
Editeur : Zed Books, 2020

Synopsis

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic mix of cultural texts – from Lucian Freud to Google, Anthony Giddens to selfies, Jean-Luc Nancy to Amy Winehouse – Pfannebecker and Smith lay out how the capitalism of globalized technologies has put our time, our subjectivities, our experiences and our desires to work in unprecedented ways. As every part of life is colonized by work without securing our livelihoods, new questions need to be asked: whether a nostalgia for work can save us, how ideas of work change conceptions of political community, how employment and unemployment alike have become malemployment, and whether the work of our desire online can be disentangled from capitalist exploitation. The biggest question, at a time when the end of work and a fully automated future are proclaimed by Silicon Valley idealists as well as by social democratic politicians and left-wing theorists, is this: how can we propose a post-work society and culture that we will actually want?

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À propos de l'auteur

Mareile Pfannebecker is a writer and translator based in Manchester. She has published on Shakespeare, Renaissance travel writing and critical theory.

James A. Smith is the author of Other People's Politics and Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy. He is a lecturer in the English department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Éditeur
Zed Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786997282
ISBN 13 
9781786997289
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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