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Antiwork

Autopsy of alienated work (graduations and degradations).

​ Preliminary definition: an authentic human work is the effort consented to produce or create, in order to realize a project fulfilling the person who carries it out. If work is not this consented effort, but a forced act, it becomes violence, constraint. If work realizes a project alien to the person who performs it, it becomes dispossession of his act, alienation from himself. If work does not develop a disposition, a talent, a potentiality of the one who performs it, it becomes withering, atrophy. In inauthentic work as defined here, which forms the immense mass of work done on earth, the individual is asked to stay in the checkroom: in fact, what is done generally involves only his organs such as the hand or the brain. Organs that are no longer his, but belong to the production process that is foreign to him. Individuals not being (or not yet)…


Preliminary definition: an authentic human work is the effort consented to produce or create, in order to realize a project fulfilling the person who carries it out.

If work is not this consented effort, but a forced act, it becomes violence, constraint.

If work realizes a project alien to the person who performs it, it becomes dispossession of his act, alienation from himself.

If work does not develop a disposition, a talent, a potentiality of the one who performs it, it becomes withering, atrophy.

In inauthentic work as defined here, which forms the immense mass of work done on earth, the individual is asked to stay in the checkroom: in fact, what is done generally involves only his organs such as the hand or the brain. Organs that are no longer his, but belong to the production process that is foreign to him.

Individuals not being (or not yet) robots, the authentic personality (or what remains of it) can be partially allowed to express itself superficially, in a decorative way, but the individual must above all equip himself with the behaviors adapted to his function: an automatic smile, a bow, an agreed upon speech.

The priority that enslaves the human activity of the vast majority is of course the insane profit of a few.

To emancipate oneself from inauthentic work consists in making the blossoming of the dispositions, talents and potentialities of each and everyone a universal priority.

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