Naslov
Just one more thing to do and then you are not done

Autori
Krce-Ivančić, Matko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
London Conference in Critical Thought 2023

Mjesto i datum
London, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 30.06.2023. - 01.07.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Freedom ; Hope ; Neoliberalism ; Postponement ; Work

Sažetak
Horkheimer was spot-on when he said: ‘Freedom means not having to work.’ The vast majority of us unfortunately have to work in order to survive, so we try to find work that promises a relatively decent life. But, as Sloterdijk noticed, ‘before we “really live”, we always have just one more matter to attend to [...] And with this just one more and one more and one more arises that structure of postponement and indirect living that keeps the system of excessive production going.’ This paper not ‘only’ explores the structure of postponement and indirect living in neoliberal society but also probes the following question: what would it mean to ‘really live’ today, thus instituting the structure of direct living? Surely, as Tokumitsu claims, ‘tantalizing closeness is the hallmark of second- class labor: it affords workers a clear view of what could be, yet they remain relegated to the frustration zone of so-close-yet-so-far.’ But what happens when one decides to stop chasing the promise of first-class work, thereby refusing to live in the state of permanent frustration? The paper explores whether the Cynics, more precisely their ethical practice ‘the care of self’, could serve any emancipatory purposes here or would the care of self, conducted in today’s society, be more likely to boil down to something along the lines of mindfulness ideology and thus prove as yet another way of perpetuating neoliberalism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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