The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
Mike talks with pholosopher Jason Read about his book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.
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Show Notes
Mike talks with Jason Read, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, about his book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.
Topics Mike & Jason discuss include:
- work as a source of meaning and identity
- what Spinoza adds to Marx’s views on work
- what Fight Club, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul can tell us about work
- Gen X and the death of slacker culture
- why ‘selling out’ isn’t seen as such a bad thing anymore
- mythocracy and negative solidarity
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