## Metadata - Author: [[David Frayne]] - Full Title: The Refusal of Work - Category: #books ## Highlights - it is also important to recognise from the outset that the critique of work is not a defence of laziness. It instead expresses a desire to widen the space for autonomous activities and to reclaim the time to work for ourselves. Even if a palatable chunk of time to be lazy has a rightful place in the vision to liberate workers, what is ultimately demanded is less a right to laziness than a right to realise human capacities more fully. - Kathi Weeks puts it well when she writes that to critique work is not necessarily to deny that work has any value: It is, rather, to insist that there are other ways to organise and distribute that activity and to remind us that it is also possible to be creative outside the boundaries of work. It is to suggest that there might be a variety of ways to experience the pleasure that we may now find in work, as well as other pleasures that we may wish to discover, cultivate, and enjoy.The critique of work also reminds us that ‘the willingness to live for and through work renders subjects supremely fit for capitalist purposes’ (Weeks, 2011: 12).