Julie
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Julie
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Free time is the product of the capitalist system, therefore not really free because owned by the boss class.
Cameron, you’ve said that when you’re not feeling particularly creative, you listen to a song, or watch a movie, or read a book, and before long you get “the urge to respond.” We typically hear the creative act described as, you know, there’s a void, and a flash of lighting cracks through it. But I really like that idea of response as intrinsic to... See more
In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit. The derision we heap upon the avid stamp collector or train spotter might really be a kind of defense mechanism, to spare us from confronting the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
To love the amateur is also to go beyond comparison with the professional and instead to better grasp what it means to function on limited means, little power and often alack of external appreciation. It is to see what emerges to sustain love: gritty determination, dedicated hours of work, banter,playful experimentation, attention to detail,clever
... See moreWhy love the amateur? The more typical framing of these two terms ‘love’ and ‘amateur’ is reversed.Amateurs are lovers, who love the world of activity they have chosen despite the lack of monetary reward.
The defense against slop and brainrot
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