(Nick’s Notes: The original article by JoAnne Swanson can be found here. All of the RTJC’s articles are under a Creative Commons License that requires attribution, non-commercial use and no re-mixing. I do not expect to make any money off of this post nor am I asking for folks to give me money for this…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the second of two unpublished Hardly Working posts that I had for C4SS. It was originally written in late May) For a while now I have been trying to wrack my head and figure out how to tell a story about the anti-work position to better exemplify its means and ends. It…
Re-posted from here. This essay was a big part of my own essay on anti-work that I presented at the 2014 Boston Anarchist Bookfair. I seem to work a lot. At least, I think I work a lot. Like many in the modern world, I find it pretty hard to tell the difference between work…
Apparently, Medium holds a three month exclusive license on people’s work, otherwise I’d just post the whole damn thing, it’s too good not to! This essay deals with a lot of how we think about what makes us productive vs. what actually helps us do the things we want to get done, done. Norton travels to…
Nick’s Notes: You can find part one, here.) In my last entry I wrote about Vygotsky’s ideas about play in an imaginary situation. A key piece of his theory of play has to do with how rules and imagination help to form one another during games. In this entry I’ve written about where in typical development…
Nick’s Notes: So sorry for the lack of posts lately! I went to MICE this weekend and was swamped by that both nights to feel like adding more to the site. On the plus side we’ve got (more or less) a full week of posts that should go up this week if all goes well!…
(Nick’s Notes: You can find this article here.) “What is the bombing of a judge, the kidnapping of an industrialist, the hanging of a politician, the shooting of a cop, the looting of a supermarket, the burning of a commissioner’s office, the stoning of a journalist, the heckling of an intellectual, the thrashing of an artist,…