Episode Details

Mike talks with Jason Read, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, about his book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.

Topics Mike & Jason discuss include:

- work as a source of meaning and identity

- what Spinoza adds to Marx’s views on work

- what Fight Club, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul can tell us about work

- Gen X and the death of slacker culture

- why ‘selling out’ isn’t seen as such a bad thing anymore

- mythocracy and negative solidarity

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