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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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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
The Politics Guys on Facebook | X
Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This?
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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