Escaping the logic of work, with Mareile Pfannebecker

With Reason

The co-author of ‘Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism’ on how the logic of work has crept into all we do, and how we might untangle ourselves. Will the Covid-19 pandemic offer a way out? Or will it simply increase the twin blights of under- and over-employment – not to mention our addiction to digital labour online?

For readers of David Graeber, Donna Haraway, Aaron Bastani, Paul Mason and David Frayne.
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Presenters: Samira Shackle & Niki Seth-Smith
Producer: Alice Bloch
Music by Danosongs

Reading List:

• Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith (2020) 'Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism'
• David Graeber (2018) 'Bullshit Jobs'
• Aaron Bastani (2019) 'Fully Automated Luxury Capitalism'
• Paul Mason (2019) 'Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being'
• Tiqqun (1999/2012) 'Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl'
• Donna Haraway (1985) 'A Cyborg Manifesto'
• Sophie Lewis (2019) 'Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family'
• New Humanist magazine (2019) 'Fighting for the Future' by Niki Seth-Smith