What is labor-time, and what the hell does turning towards death mean? These are the questions. Part 1.

In this episode we begin the project of "meaningful work" as an ethical demand. I begin to lay out my approach to the "problem of work," the questions, issues, and authors that shaped my MA research project, "Toward Meaningful Work; Labor-Time and the Turn Towards Death," and some of the complications that have arisen since the original paper was written five years ago.

Obligatory bibliography, or books you may also want to check out. I've not included links to purchase since, one, I recommend checking your local bookstore or library, and two, Amazon isn't about to go out of business because I didn't send them a few extra clicks.

Bataille, Georges, and Robert Hurley. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. 1. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2007
Camus, Albert, and Justin O'Brien. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Paw Prints, 2008.
Graeber, David. Bullshit Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Heidegger, Martin, and David Farrell Krell. "The Question Concerning Technology," in Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964). New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.
Livingston, James. No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. London, UK: Penguin, 1992.
Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin in association with New Left Review, 1992.
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Lexington, Ky: Renaissance Classics, 2013.
Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2011.

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