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The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work


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Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Spinoza, why do people fight to be exploited as if it were liberation? To find the answer, The Double Shift turns to the intersection of Marx and Spinoza and examines contemporary ideologies and the modern phenomena of work-motivational meetings at Apple Stores, the culture of Silicon Valley, as well as film and television, from Office Space to Better Call Saul-to argue for the transformation of our collective imagination and attachment to work.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Pulling a Double The Work of the Economic in the Political 2. Pulling a Double, Part 2: The Work of the Material in the Mental 3. Pulling a Double, Part 3: The Work of Action in Production (and Vice Versa) Conclusion 189

About the Author :
Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Politics of Transindividuality (Haymarket 2017) and The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy (Brill 2022). He blogs about philosophy, politics, and culture at unemployednegativity.com.

Review :
Drawing on Marx, Spinoza, and popular film, Jason Read builds an illuminating analysis that not only astutely captures, but also helps to make sense of, our double experience of wage work as a locus of freedom and compulsion, hope and fear, self-actualization and self-impoverishment, love and hate. This book is a must read for students of contemporary capitalism. Jason Read's wonderful book constructs an engaging dialogue between Marx and Spinoza that shines a new light on pressing contemporary issues of politics and work. With The Double Shift, Jason Read cuts trenchantly into the knot of entangled alienations that attach us to outdated perceptions of economics, ethics and politics. This impressive synthesis of the reinvention of a Spinozan Marx by current French and Italian theorists joyfully enrolls recent films and TV series into a critical analysis of the "negative solidarity" which fuels the rise of right-wing politics. As late-capitalist societies are eaten away, from the inside, by widely shared but deeply misleading perceptions of work and waged labor, this is indeed a most urgent Read!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781839767623
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 600 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1839767626
  • Publisher Date: 12 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
  • Width: 140 mm


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