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How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
As Graeber suggests, this partly came true, but instead of working half the week, we have somehow filled the remaining days with meaningless tasks. The very time and freedom we need to engage in meaningful activities and to imagine a better future is being squeezed by nonsense tasks. Historically, we needed more labourers to produce goods and servi
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Public time was time calibrated to the needs of transportation and production networks. Private time was equally desacralized and irreligious. Sacred calendars were—and are—sternly communitarian. Religious time does not strive to satisfy individual needs. It makes its own inexorable demands, flowing from prayer service to prayer service, from festi
... See moreJudith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
So to have your precious days consumed by purposeless labor, mind-numbing tasks, and the commercialization of your thoughts and creativity, for tasks better suited for machines is an affront to the universe.
Aaron Lawson • A Knowledge Worker’s Manifesto — knowledge work studio
What does this history tell us about life in the 21st century? Bosses set hours and income, and workers adjust. When husbands controlled their wives’ schedules, they insisted on a clean and tidy home and a ready-made dinner; and their wives typically obliged. When today’s employers hire a full-time worker under modern labor laws, they insist on a 4... See more
Derek Thompson • Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
It’s difficult to find the mental space to question systems of power when we’re working eight hours, then trying to lift heavy weights that don’t need lifting or pedalling bikes that go nowhere for an hour so we don’t die of a heart attack from being stuck for a third of our lives in a physically restrictive workspace. We sleep for another third of
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
As I started to experiment with how I spent my time, Taggart’s question remained in my head. I was fascinated by his claim that we lived in a time of “total work,” a state of existence in which work is such a powerful force that almost everyone ends up identifying as a worker first and foremost.