productivity – Social Text

Groves of Post-Criticality: Quiet Rooms at the International Airport

Philipp Röding

To what gods is one supposed to pray in this place, conveniently located at FRAport’s Terminal 1, Gate Z, where something so obviously glitzy as an undulating, wavy ceiling with a polished-gold finish can pass for “weltanschaulich neutral”? When one … Continue reading “Groves of Post-Criticality: Quiet Rooms at the International Airport”

June 6, 2019 | Features

Imagining Non-Work

kathi weeks

The concept of a “jobless recovery” offers just one more example of the many ways that work is not working as a system of income allocation, pathway to individual achievement, or mode of social belonging. And yet, the only … Continue reading “Imagining Non-Work”

March 28, 2013 | Features

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