With it now being eight days this is probably the longest I have gone without posting anything. Most of that has to do with this being the major cleaning and moving week for me and my main computer I use at home being systematically unreliable to the point of me almost smashing it. So I’ve…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the second short sketch of Voltairine’s tha very much relates to the tyranny of work. You can find the first one here. And there will most likely be another one sometime in the near future. As with The Sorrows of the Body Eugenia C. DeLamotte, author of Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution…
(Original link here (now dead)! I’d like to give my many thanks to Jason for his improvements and encouragement!) When a given structure, institution, activity, or social pattern makes up a lot of our lives as individuals, it demands our attention as individualist anarchists. Work is one such thing that takes up most of our lives…
(Original link can be found here) It was recently brought to my attention by James Tuttle that Stevphen Shukaitis published the paper, “Learning Not to Labor“. I figured I would drop my two cents on what we should be aiming for, if we want a “zero work training” or a pedagogy for anti-work people like me.…
Or so I’ve gathered from the following video by the Youtube user chunkymark…
Fans of this site will appreciate the excellent discussion on reducing work as a solution to labor problems that appears in this month’s issue of leftist magazine In These Times. Magazine editor Jessica Stites talks with two antiwork radical leftists — Jacobin magazine’s editor and regular contributor of antiwork material Peter Frase and The Problem With Work‘s Kathi Weeks — and one liberal who, despite…
My friend Joel Schlosberg showed this to me a week ago and in the spirit of Mr. Lazy I didn’t post it then and only am posting it now and partially just as an excuse not to post anything else. 😉
Okay, okay that’s not entirely fair but take a look. The most up-voted comment is one complaining about undertones of anti-consumerism and capitalism as if that had any damn thing to do with someone enjoying their life on roller skates. I know anarcho-capitalists are wont to accuse leftists of overly-politicizing things but can we give anarcho-capitalists for…
I have noticed that this site, Brain Pickings by Maria Popova, has quite a few blog posts related to work and the themes of anti-work. Here we have some choice quotes from William J. Reily’s How to Avoid Work: Most [people] have the ridiculous notion that anything they do which produces an income is work — and…
With everything that has been going on these past few days, doing another blog on Hardly Working just kept going in and out of my mind. And then there it was on my Facebook news feed: A five paragraph comment by my friend Alex Strekal responding to my first Hardly Working post from last week.…