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Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought (2016)
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Lane, J. F. (2016). Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought. Nottingham French Studies, 55(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0140

In Le Capitalisme cognitif (2007), Yann Moulier Boutang argues that, under Post-Fordism, workers are expected to invest ever more of their creative, affective, and cognitive powers in their labours. These eminently human qualities, he maintains, are... Read More about Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought.