"Strikingly, both capital and labor accept the division between work time and lesiure time…while they are at odds as to its use, both take for granted a certain functional concept of time, and a certain acquisitive and accumulating approach to every day life that comes with it.
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Debord’s first major work, by his own later accounts, was a simple three-word graffiti that translates as “Never work!”…Debord’s “Never work!” frees time from its binary form of work time and leisure time. The dérive then becomes the pratice of lived time, time not divided and accorded a function in advance; a time inhabited by neither workers nor consumers.”
from The Beach Beneath the Street, by McKenzie Wark
Published on January 02, 2015 19:07