Berlin-based philosopher Samo Tomšič's latest book, The Labour of Enjoyment, & Isabelle Graw, sat down with Tomšič to discuss the implications of his recent study for the field of art.
"If I now link this to your example of people who hate their work, then I’d say that this hatred points toward the same problematic compulsion. Under neoliberal capitalism, we are confronted with the injunction to enjoy work, and hence to enjoy the central compulsion in our lives and the whole system of exploitation built on it. That’s the basic point of the neoliberal idea of the entrepreneurial self: exploitation is internalized; it no longer comes from outside, but instead becomes our most fundamental relation both to ourselves and to others, our inner morality."