Dreamwork: Why All Work Is Imaginary - Rilegato

Connor, Steven

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ISBN 10: 1789147565 ISBN 13: 9781789147568

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2023

Riassunto

Upending our perception of employment, a surprising investigation into the mystical nature of our daily toil.
 
Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads, and ideals we have about work. Its central argument is this: Although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might, under some circumstances, do for fun. All work is imaginary—which is not to say that it is simply illusory, but rather that, to count as work, it must be imagined to be work. In other words, a large part of what we mean by working is this work of imagining. Work is therefore essentially mystical—just the opposite of what it is taken to be by all of us spending our days at desks, behind cash registers, and in factories. Delving into this complex mythos, Dreamwork looks in turn at worries about whether or not work is hard; the importance of places of work; the meanings of hobbies, holidays, and sabbaths; and the history of dreams of redeeming work.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Steven Connor is professor of English and director of research at the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College, London. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing, also published by Reaktion Books.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1789147565
• ISBN 13: 9781789147568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile