Unworkable

<p><b>Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital work and ideology.</b></p><p><i>Unworkable</i> discusses the ongoing implosion of our globalized world from three distinct angles: the capitalist elimination of labor through technological automation the dissolution of our shared social narratives and the subtle imposition of an increasingly pervasive ideological order. Aiming to root out the lost cause of this implosion Fabio Vighi returns to Marx by way of Hegel Lacan Gorz Baudrillard and other thinkers who in different ways have reflected on the complex dialectical structure of modernity and its hidden conditions of possibility. Capitalism Vighi argues fundamentally redefined the meaning of work and prevented the emergence of alternative forms of life. In our own time the delusions of work and the values that propel life under capitalism have become in Vighi's analysis <i>unworkable</i>. And yet even as we become an increasingly workless society we continue to abide by the same laws of productivity and profit.</p>