Not Working: A More Serious Work

Not Working: A More Serious Work Book Description

Today, we are subject to a culture that cannot tolerate stopping, that sanctifies work as the primary meaning and purpose of life, and that fuels all kinds of busyness; We need to see every moment as an opportunity to produce or consume. The workaholic consciousness, which has already exceeded the limits of the concern for a living and is fed by competition, guarantees that millions of people spend their lives at work. Our concerns about stopping, about unfilled and unallocated time, push us into a constant state of distraction.

According to psychoanalyst and literary theorist Josh Cohen, we always find ourselves caught between the urge to do too much and the desire to do nothing. We feel guilty; We tend to view our desires as a shameful or unnecessary malfunction of our constitution.

(Not) Working: A More Serious Work, starting from Orson Welles, Emily Dickinson, David Foster Wallace, Andy Warhol and shedding light on the subtleties of the art of doing nothing in the light of literature, cultural studies and psychoanalysis; offers provocative ideas about the creative possibilities of an alternative perspective.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 264

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2021

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish