Work Want Work

"The idea that not working can be an active, positive, even material quality is not new. The term désœuvrement, 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 as certain utopian writers are calling for its abolishment. Through an interrogation of sociological data, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of…