Aaaand… we’re back! Welcome to the first episode of 2025, a year that I’m sure will prove, um, noteworthy? Today we’re moving on to another, and even smaller book (literally, it’s like 5 by 7 inches and only a hundred and seven pages, including the acknowledgements), No More Work; Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea by James Livingston, University of North Carolina Press, 2016. And fair warning, there are going to be a lot of ‘f-bombs’ in this episode - and the next, to be honest.

In this Episode? Work and Labor; Classicial Philosophy, history, economics; Aristotle, Marx, Arendt, and much more.

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Obligatory bibliography, or books (and articles) you may also want to check out:

“Question concerning Technology.” in Heidegger, Martin, David Farrell Krell, and Taylor Carman. 1977. Basic Writings : From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964). Rev. and expanded ed. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought.
Livingston, James. 2016. No More Work : Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Links to check out:

PHILOSOPHY - The Good Life: Aristotle
HAC Bard. "Arendt on Resentment."
The Noble Leisure Project. “Aristotle on Work vs. Leisure.”
libcom.org "Socially Necessary Labor Time"

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