Join author and professor Jason Read, chair of the Philosophy Department to celebrate and discuss his new book The Double Shift (Verso, 2024). Invoking Better Call Saul, Fight Club, Office Space, and other popular touchstones, Read’s new book explores how Marx and Spinoza can explain our attachment to work, and what we can do about it.
In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways to hustle in a gig economy. What drives our attachment to work? To paraphrase a question from Spinoza, “Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?”
This event will take place at SPACE Gallery in downtown Portland at 538 Congress Street on March 5, 2024 at 7PM. For free admittance RSVP. You may also order a copy of The Double Shift.
You may attend for free if you RSVP in advance: