Episode 8 - Dead Man Working, Part I: The World of the Living Dead

In this episode, we begin a new series exploring some contemporary critiques of work based on the book Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming. Cederstrom and Fleming describe the world of corporatised work as the "land of the living dead" in which the motifs and symbols of resistance to work - as well as biopower, the key characteristic of our humanity - have been co-opted by corporatism to trap humans in an endless regime of pointless and unfulfilling labour.

References

Cederstrom, Carl, and Fleming, Peter, Dead Man Working.  Alresford; Zero Books, 2012.