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- 9780316565769
- Éditeur
- Little, Brown Spark
- Date de publication
- 06/02/2024
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- anglais
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Livre numérique
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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the
unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism--only to end up living
comfortably alongside it
What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have
in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of
the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labor, to the reign of the
shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel
like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more.
People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and
technology, labor and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a
less than ideal world. In it, Sally Olds brings her "unsparing scrutiny to
bear…as she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of
capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification" (ABC Arts).
In one essay, Olds's brief flirtation with post-monogamy forces her to
confront the emotional prison of the "open relationship"; in another, a multi-
hour viewing of a critically acclaimed performance art piece highlights how
even the highest forms of culture exist to convert pleasure into capital.
In the end, her forays into these colorful worlds betray a deep irony:
escaping a system built on the exchange of wage labor is, quite simply, a lot
of work.
unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism--only to end up living
comfortably alongside it
What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have
in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of
the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labor, to the reign of the
shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel
like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more.
People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and
technology, labor and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a
less than ideal world. In it, Sally Olds brings her "unsparing scrutiny to
bear…as she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of
capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification" (ABC Arts).
In one essay, Olds's brief flirtation with post-monogamy forces her to
confront the emotional prison of the "open relationship"; in another, a multi-
hour viewing of a critically acclaimed performance art piece highlights how
even the highest forms of culture exist to convert pleasure into capital.
In the end, her forays into these colorful worlds betray a deep irony:
escaping a system built on the exchange of wage labor is, quite simply, a lot
of work.
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