At long last, the finale to my (5 part) 4 part series on Labor-Time, Turning Toward Death, and Meaningful Work. This week I return to Bataille and the Accursed Share, try to get to what Meaningful Work might be, and why it should be an ethical project. I also discuss Chairs. Grab a seat.

Recommended links:
https://umistapotlatch.ca/potlatch-eng.php
https://voegelinview.com/the-gift-marcel-mauss-and-rene-girard/

Obligatory bibliography, or books you may also want to check out.

Bataille, Georges, and Robert Hurley. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. 1. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2007
Heidegger, Martin, John Macquarrie, and Edward Robinson. Being and Time. Malden: Blackwell, 2013.
Graeber, David. Bullshit Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin in association with New Left Review, 1992.

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Widgets are strange, when you're an estranger, people are stranger when you're alone. In this episode we start thinking about death and work a little differently, consider what what work is and why it's a problem under Capitalism, why widgets matter, and what appropriation is... in other words, please welcome Karl Marx and George Bataille to the conversation.

Recommended links:
Ask a Left Nietzschean (Acid Horizon episode)
https://www.youtube.com/live/xZtvocD_ooQ?si=EYs311rESuC0LdkB

Nietzsche symposium at Columbia:
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/nietzsche1313/
(I misidentified it as 8/13, 8/13 is only one discussion, on Fanon, the Symposium is 13/13).
I highly recommend session 4/13 | Gilles Deleuze, on "The Deleuzian Nietzsche" https://youtu.be/oFFxnf92XqY

Obligatory bibliography, or books you may also want to check out.

Bataille, Georges, and Robert Hurley. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. 1. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2007
Heidegger, Martin, John Macquarrie, and Edward Robinson. Being and Time. Malden: Blackwell, 2013.
Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin in association with New Left Review, 1992.

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Interlude. This week, we take a detour off the road Toward Meaningful Work to examine what exactly Heidegger means by Dasein and Being-toward-death, and why these concepts are relevant to the "turning toward death" I believe is necessary to overcome the "Work Ethic."


Obligatory bibliography, or books you may also want to check out.

Heidegger, Martin, John Macquarrie, and Edward Robinson. Being and Time. Malden: Blackwell, 2013.
Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy. Future tense : why anxiety is good for you (even though it feels bad). New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublilshers, 2022.

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