What is labor-time, and what the hell does turning towards death mean? These are the questions. Part 2.

In this episode we start unpacking the strategy of making "work," strange. We start with the psychological weight carried by deeply held beliefs and why a sense of disruption may be necessary before any critical examination of concepts like work. We touch a bit on Freud, Heidegger, and the joys of German compound nouns.

As promised, the link for David McRaney's conversation at Dragoncon 2014:
https://youtu.be/SuPKUXz3edU?si=YwAc3dEZ809HwjVn

Obligatory bibliography, or books you may also want to check out. I've not included links to purchase since, one, I recommend checking your local bookstore or library, and two, Amazon isn't about to go out of business because I didn't send them a few extra clicks.

Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. New York: Bantam Matrix. 1967
Heidegger, Martin, and David Farrell Krell. "The Question Concerning Technology," in Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964). New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.
Heidegger, Martin, John Macquarrie, and Edward Robinson. Being and Time. Malden: Blackwell, 2013.
McRaney, David. You are not so smart : why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself. Gotham Books/Penguin Group, New York. 2011

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