On work stoppages and work-doings.
Ben Hickman, published poet and senior lecturer in English at the University of Kent, joins us to discuss his project on different understandings of work, or rather, The Work.
What is The Work and why is it so pernicious? Ben wrote a piece for Compact regarding how the American poet and radical professor Audre Lorde transformed the way we think about work. We talk through the differences between work and The Work, how it impacted radical activism, and how middle class work became all about self-exploration.
Ben talks through a new book project on work and how it is understood culturally through figures such as Jackson Pollock, among others. Plus, what is happening with industrial relations on UK campuses, and how has radical politics unfolded in the Labour Party over the last few years?
Reading:
/440/ Dear Tradmother, Why Are You Sad? ft. Amber A'Lee Frost (sample)
/439/ We Can Shape Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus
/438/ You Are Being Enlisted into the Culture War ft. Andrew Hartman
/437/ Climate Change Is Not an Information Problem ft. Holly Buck (sample)
/436/ Slovakia's Four World Directions ft. Dominik Zelinsky
UNLOCKED: /419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford
/435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII (sample)
/434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)
/433/ Aufhebonus Bonus – August 2024 (sample)
/432/ Median Left Thought and its Monsters ft. Ben Burgis (sample)
/431/ The Myth of Monolithic China ft. Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri
/430/ Welcome to the Tourist Age ft. Marco d'Eramo
/429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
/427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
/426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/425/ Reading Club: Russia's Imitation Democracy (sample)
/424/ Aufhebonus Bonus - July 2024 (sample)
/423/ Who Wants the 'Worst Job' in France? ft. Charles Devellennes
/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown
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