I: Introduction Whether it comes to the fiction I write or the non-fiction that I read or the ideas I embody or even the people I tend to associate with folks who live “on the margins” are usually the most fascinating to me. The individuals who have taken a look at society and concluded something…
There’s a lot of things to like about Rushkoff as someone who is critical and skeptical of work in general. I even hosted one of his articles about jobs and whether they were obsolete a few years back. In addition there’s a few books, essays and so on and so forth that I’m sure I’d…
(Source) To his publisher, John Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) 8-12-86 Hello John: Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or make films about it, they…
I don’t know how The Truth came up in my Facebook feed but their audio project The Last Job was an interesting look at what a post-work world would look like. It is mainly inspired by the economist John Maynard Keynes and his essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, it considers automation as key to…
I’m using this weekend to concentrate on my book so here’s another lazy post taken from my research… (Here’s the lyrics)
There’s this excellent article on Salon called Corporate mindfulness is bullshit: Zen or no Zen, you’re working harder and being paid less. And as far as titles go (and especially given the location of Salon) the article is just an overall winner. I love titles that are brutally honest (or involve puns) and this post…
Nick’s Notes: This post was originally posted on Copblock.org under a Creative Commons License. I’ve spaced out Hotchkin’s essay and moved some of the photos around but done nothing else in the editing process. When once they stalked deer, or crouched shivering in the mud for the flight of ducks to alight, or risked their…
So…this is something. Also see here for the unedited video: Also, does anyone wanna hit those dudes that are bullying those robots? I know it’s (ahem) their job but…
Here’s a chapter that looks at the work structure of the collective farms and how peasants resisted that sort of work. So there’s a bit more terms of anti-work to discuss here, let’s get into it! Early on in this chapter, Fitzpatrick mentions the use of ironic language on the part of peasants as Soviets…