Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian TimesWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political. Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is reason gone mad. For Walter Benjamin, laughter was the most revolutionary emotion. In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call work, what does it mean to take comedy seriouslyand to turn it against work? Both philosophically brilliant and deeply personal, Comedy Against Workdemonstrates how laughing about work can

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showcasing his idiosyncratic cultural obsessions

fire emerges from this magician's hat

asking us to “re-see” text and its multi-layered meanings

After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house

His dallying with literary and philosophical coteries

her daughter's gone missing and

Poetries presents the core of Georges Schehadè's (1905–89) oeuvre

ever-curious

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allowing the reader a chance to dream in turn

Highly regarded yet little known