Some months ago a friend introduced me to the French expression ‘metro – boulot – dodo’. The phrase captures a set of interconnected feelings: that an inordinate amount of time is lost commuting each morning (metro), that days themselves are the fiefdom of work (boulot), and that once you have returned home, you are soContinue reading “Make Your Own Job”
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Of Transclasses and Outlaws
In Transclasses, Chantal Jaquet supplements work on social reproduction theory by considering exceptions to the rule, counterexamples where habitual models of identification are rejected, instances of what Jaquet calls ‘social non-reproduction’. With reference to social class – the subject of Jaquet’s text – non-reproduction relates to situations where individuals leave their familial class and crossoverContinue reading “Of Transclasses and Outlaws”
Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labour in Inventing Anna
My somewhat belated reflections on Inventing Anna (2022) were published last week on Tom Pazderka’s substack A Secret Plot. The article in part seeks to question what it is about contemporary con artists and hustlers that makes them historically distinct (assuming they are indeed historically distinct) from the mythic snake oil salesman that haunts theContinue reading “Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labour in Inventing Anna”
Thomas Travers 