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Meaningless work

Dennis Nørmark, Anders Fogh Jensen: Pseudo-work – how did we get busy doing nothing

WORK: Why are some "incompetent" employees deliberately set to do meaningless tasks? And are all the leaders as important as their high salaries suggest?
Arne Øgaard -
literature

A truly solidary and subversive feminism – who do you work for?

Susan Ferguson: Women and Work. Feminism, Labor and Social Reproduction

WORK: "Working under capitalism is devastating to people, you die a little inside every time you go to work for someone else."
Nina Trige Andersen -
literature

The joy of the work of others

Salomé Aguilera Svirsky: The Process Genre. Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor

DO IT YOURSELF: Author Salomé Aguilera Svirsky dissects and refines a visual genre we know but have not learned to appreciate.
Nina Trige Andersen -
ESSAY

ON THE BASIS OF KNOWLEDGE: The possibilities of the Citizens' Assembly

INNOVATION: What are "civic assemblies" as political tools? They are now used to ensure a universal consensus and propose solutions that everyone will perceive as meaningful – even in times of crisis.
Andrea Culková -
COMMENT

David Graeber (1961–2020)

Obituary:: David Graeber died recently. MODERN TIMES chooses for once to bring an obituary – here over the anarchist who wanted to change our usual notions of what is possible and impossible, right and wrong, normal and strange.
Daniel Vernegg -
literature

The value of man in the unemployed society

Daniel Susskind: A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

LIFE: How are we going to be able to live a meaningful life in a world without work, where everything is automated and education no longer leads to work?
Henning Næs -
COMMENT

A society built on artificial intelligence

UTOPI OR FUTURE: Is artificial intelligence and automation a lifeline or a threat to society?
sami@nytid.com -
documentary

The unproductive attention

: What distinguishes the artist from what we usually understand as the worker? Yes – the artist can be unproductive when she works.
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