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Abolish Work on Immediatism Podcast

"To be clear, the case against work is not one for a shorter workday, for better jobs, working conditions, or benefits, but rather for the enthusiastic retrieval of a kind of autonomy and energy that remains unthinkable as long as work endures. Violently and imperiously, work steals our opportunities for self-creation; it forecloses any possibility of Emile Armand's beautiful idea -- 'personal life as a work of art,' whereby life is lived in favor of oneself, not as an funereal exercise in abstention." ~from the Foreword

These five new episodes of Immediatism explore jobs, antiwork, and the prospects of more jobs being taken by robots in perhaps the near future. David Graeber reports "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs." Brian Dean discusses "Antiwork -- A Radical Shift in How We View Jobs." And in the three-part David Autor Series, John Danaher explores "Why Haven't Robots Taken Our Jobs? The Complimentarity Argument," "Automation and Income Inequality: Understanding the Polarization Effect," and "Polanyi's Paradox: Will Humans Maintain Any Advantage Over Machines?"

This book, Abolish Work: An Exposition of Philosophical Ergophobia, is edited by Nick Ford, published by LBC Books, and available from LittleBlackCart.com.

Foreword by David S. D'Amato
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/234-abolish-work-an-exposition-...
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/235-on-the-phenomenon-of-bullsh...
Antiwork -- A Radical Shift in How We View Jobs
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/236-antiwork-a-radical-shift-in...
Why Haven't Robots Taken Our Jobs
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/237
Automation and Income Inequality
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/238-autor-series-2-automation-i...
Will Humans Maintain Any Advantage Over Machines?
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/239-autor-series-3-polanyis-par...

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