Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism

by James A. Smith and Mareile Pfannebecker

Book Overview

The idea that not working can be an active, positive, even material quality is not new. The term d soeuvrement, literally "unworking" or "the absence of work," has been examined by many thinkers, but it is it so simply achieved? Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has surreptitiously integrated itself into everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become dissipated and unreliable, and even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786997282
• ISBN13: 9781786997289
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"