Dreamwork: Why All Work Is Imaginary

by Steven Connor

Book Overview

Upending our perception of employment, a surprising investigation into the mystical nature of our daily toil.

Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads, and ideals we have about work. Its central argument is this: Although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might, under some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789147565
• ISBN13: 9781789147568
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"