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Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall

Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Mar 18, 2022 | The American Vandal, The World's Work

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 18, 2022 Apple Podcasts Spotify Resonate Recordings Is is possible to imagine a world without work? Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social and...
Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin

Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Mar 8, 2022 | The American Vandal, The World's Work

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 8, 2022 Apple Podcasts Spotify Resonate Recordings Wes Anderson’s acclaimed new movie, The French Dispatch, draws inspiration from the Golden Age of The New Yorker magazine, a period from roughly the early...
Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith

Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Feb 23, 2022 | The American Vandal, The World's Work

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 23, 2022 Apple Podcasts Spotify Resonant Recordings How do we explain the so-called “Great Resignation”? Or, for that matter, other mysteries of our contemporary economy, like the high prices charged for...
Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh

Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Feb 14, 2022 | The American Vandal, The World's Work

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 14, 2022 Apple Podcasts Spotify Resonant Recordings Mark Twain began compiling his autobiography in 1905. He described it as a “systemless system” resting on three motives. Writing, especially...
“Are We All Porn Workers Now?”: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara

“Are We All Porn Workers Now?”: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Feb 7, 2022 | The American Vandal, The World's Work

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 7, 2022 Apple Podcasts Spotify Resonant Recordings This is the second episode of “The World’s Work,” a series on the “tiresome history, exasperating present, and potential futures of work,” as Matt...
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