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Passionate Work
Endurance after the Good Life
Taschenbuch von Renyi Hong
Sprache: Englisch

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In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as a means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenth-century management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong demonstrates how passion can emerge in instances that would not typically be understood as passionate. Gamification numbs crippling boredom by keeping call center workers in an unthinking, suspensive state, pursuing even the most banal tasks in hope of career advancement. Coworking spaces marketed toward freelancers combat loneliness and disconnection at the precise moment when middle-class sureties are profoundly threatened. Ultimately, Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism in which passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism.
In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as a means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenth-century management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong demonstrates how passion can emerge in instances that would not typically be understood as passionate. Gamification numbs crippling boredom by keeping call center workers in an unthinking, suspensive state, pursuing even the most banal tasks in hope of career advancement. Coworking spaces marketed toward freelancers combat loneliness and disconnection at the precise moment when middle-class sureties are profoundly threatened. Ultimately, Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism in which passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism.
Über den Autor
Renyi Hong
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Passionate Work and the Good Life 1
1. From Happiness to Passion 23
2. Jobless, Undamaged, Resilient 53
3. The Compassionate Imagination 88
4. Urban Preserves 121
Conclusion. Passion in the Last Instance 160
Notes 175
Bibliography 203
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478018223
ISBN-10: 1478018224
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hong, Renyi
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Renyi Hong
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
Artikel-ID: 120207271
Über den Autor
Renyi Hong
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Passionate Work and the Good Life 1
1. From Happiness to Passion 23
2. Jobless, Undamaged, Resilient 53
3. The Compassionate Imagination 88
4. Urban Preserves 121
Conclusion. Passion in the Last Instance 160
Notes 175
Bibliography 203
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478018223
ISBN-10: 1478018224
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hong, Renyi
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Renyi Hong
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
Artikel-ID: 120207271
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