5000+ and a new publication
Two pieces of news this morning:
The collection of essays I edited with Denise Celentano, Michael Cholbi and Kory Schaff is now out in its online version; the printed version is scheduled for mid-June. The volume is called Debating a Post-Work Future. Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Routledge) and features some significant contributions to the current debates on work and its future (or lack thereof). The opening roundtable discussion between Michael Cholbi, John Danaher, Helen Hester and Kathi Weeks alone makes the book a worthwhile read.
The OnWork repository has gone past 5,000 items. Recent additions include texts by Denise Celentano, Thomas Coutrot, Jared Parmer, Caleb Althorpe, Engels’ classical analysis of work as the determining factor in the evolution of humankind, and one of the very first anticipations in the 19th century of a fully automated society, John Etzler’s 1842 “ The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, Without Labor, By Powers of Nature and Machinery” (cited by Edward Granter in his Critical Theory and the End of Work).