Month: December 2017

• December 30, 2017

  Total Work Newsletter: How Work Took Over the World

  Total work is the process by which human beings are transformed into Workers and nothing less while more aspects of life are slowly transformed into work. In this newsletter, I’ll be documenting, reflecting upon, and seeking to understand this world-historical process, one that started at least as far back as 1800 and quite possibly well…
• December 20, 2017

  ‘If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?’ My Aeon Essay

  My Aeon essay begins this way: Imagine that work had taken over the world. It would be the centre around which the rest of life turned. Then all else would come to be subservient to work. Then slowly, almost imperceptibly, anything else – the games once played, the songs hitherto sung, the loves fulfilled, the festivals celebrated…
• December 14, 2017

  The Philosopher Is Present #1: Questions In The Darkness

  Overview “The Philosopher Is Present #1: Questions In The Darkness” was a live performance held at the LungA School in Iceland on Wednesday, November 15, 2017.   Brief Description “The Philosopher Is Present” is a performance intending to evoke mystery. Silence gestures toward ineffable presence while two strangers’ voices speaking into each other’s inclined ears…