Last weekend’s conference featured a broad range of people and groups trying to put this stuff into practice.
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Thoreau’s Unsupported Anti-Technology Sentiments and New Work
In trying to solve the problem of too much meaningless work, it’s irrational to reject any potential technological solutions based on Thoreau’s biases.
New Work Entrepreneurs (and a Now-Bountiful YouTube Channel)
Folks that were interested in our Frithjof Bergmann episodes last fall about New Work should subscribe to the New Work YouTube channel, of which I am the proprietor, with Frithjof’s encouragement and cooperation. All of the videos previously created on this topic for bloggingheads have been reedited and put in a playlist here, and I have continued in recent months Continue Reading …
A School of New Work
“Start looking around you and you’ll see things that help you to get started.” Shortly following this quote in the Episode 83 Follow-Up with Frithjof Bergmann, Bergmann launches into a passionate plea for an education revolution, reminiscent of the inspirational Ken Robinson TED talks. What I’d like to offer in support of Bergmann’s hope is an image of a school that embodies Continue Reading …
Aristotle v. Nietzsche on Human Nature (And What This Means for New Work)
I want to briefly call attention to the transition between virtue ethics as conceived by Aristotle and the jump to Nietzsche in the context of our New Work discussion. I’m not looking up quotes for this post; I’m less interested in their particular views then in a divergence of ways of thinking about virtue. For Aristotle, man has a Telos, Continue Reading …
Episode 83: New Work with Guest Frithjof Bergmann
Talking with Frithjof Bergmann, Prof. Emeritus from U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor about his book New Work, New Culture (2004, English release coming soon).
Precognition of Ep. 83: New Work
An introduction to and summary of Frithjof Bergmann’s New Work, New Culture, read by Mark Linsenmayer.
Bergmann as Philosopher (Before All that “New Work” Stuff)
We’re barely more than a day away right now from our interview with Frithjof, which he says he’s “thrilled” about, and I’m certainly looking forward to as well, though I can picture any number of things going less than ideally as I introduce these two known elements (Frithjof on the one hand and Seth/Wes/Dylan on the other) to each other. Continue Reading …
Listen to the Not School Discussion on F. Bergmann’s “New Work”
July is over, and with it another month of Not School. Join up for some August action, which looks to include some Kant, Jung, David Foster Wallace, Lyotard, the philosophy of computer programming, maybe some more Marx, and more if you get in there now and propose something you’d prefer! My main activity this month was a group on the Continue Reading …
More on Bergmann’s “New Work”
Here are the main elements of Frithjof’s Bergmann’s idea of “New Work” (introduced in this post) as he taught it back at U. of Michigan. 1. Developing a calling. Work can sap our will to live, but the right kind of work can be invigorating. If it’s an enterprise you can identify with, that’s meaningful to you, then it becomes Continue Reading …
Political Idealism and Frithjof Bergmann’s “New Work”
I had intended to wait for some upcoming episode more relevant to this topic than Husserl to start ranting on this on the blog, but it’s been much on my mind of late. As you may know from my mentioning it at every possible opportunity on the podcast, probably my favorite undergrad prof. at U. of Michigan was Frithjof Bergmann. Continue Reading …
Pretty Much Pop #13: TV Revivals Revived!
Revivals (not to be confused with reboots) can bring us back to the comfort of old friends, who are now really old. But is reviving a show really ever a good idea? Mark, Erica, and Brian consider some successes, failures, and hypotheticals.
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Mark Lint’s Dry Folk album (CD)
A new album of 12 acoustic songs from your host Mark Linsenmayer. This is for the CD; get your e-versions at the bandcamp site.
Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One)
The host of Econtalk provides his take on our ep. 174 on The Wealth of Nations, and explores with us the idea of emergent economic order. Is the economy more like a machine or a garden or what?
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Episode 174: Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” (Part One)
On the foundational, 1776 text of modern economics. How does the division of labor and our instinct to exchange lead to the growth of wealth? Is the economy sufficiently machine-like to enable us to manipulate its output, or at least to tell us how not to screw it up?
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Parables as a Guide to Jesus the Philosopher, Part 14: Fairness
The abundance of moral concepts at play in the parable of the Vineyard Workers makes it a favorite among moral philosophers.
Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art
On Fromm’s The Art of Loving (1956). What is love, really? This psychoanalyst of the Frankfurt school thinks that real love is not something one “falls” into, but is an art, an activity, and doing it well requires a disciplined openness and psychological health.
End songs: “Kimmy” (1995) and “Kimmy 2002” by Mark Lint.
Songs from the Partially Examined Life by Mark Lint (CD)
The most beloved songs recorded for the podcast between 2011-2015. Titles: 1) I Insist, 2) Double Negative Theology, 3) We Who Have Escaped, 4) Jesus Noise, 5) Reason Enough, 6) The Past Is Not Real, 7) Things We Should Do, 8) The Default Relation, 9) Sense of Beauty, 10) Antigone, 11) Stoobis in the Sky, 12) Falsifiable, 13) Point of Confusion, 14) Adds Up to Nothing, 15) No Exit, 16) Thing in the World, 17) I Believe.
Topic for #125: Hannah Arendt on the Political, Private, and Social
On 9/26, 6:30 Eastern, tune in to watch us discuss Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, Parts 1 and 2, about what we need out of public and private realms to be fully human, free individuals and not pawns of society.
Topic for #123: F.A. Hayek and Amartya Sen on Assumptions of Economics
We were joined by econ grad student Seth Benzell to discuss “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by F.A. Hayek and On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen. What’s wrong with central economic planning? Need economics assume that we’re all predictably selfish?
Go listen to Seth Benzell’s introduction for a straight-up summary of the two essays and how they relate.
Libertarianism Sensibilities and the Tools of Social Change
Why might someone be a libertarian, if not for the reasons Nozick puts forward? If you believe that we have a duty to make the world better, why pull government action off the table?
Topics for #103 & #104: Thoreau and Nozick
We discussed Thoreau’s “Walden,” and then recorded a fresh conversation on Robert Nozick’s defense of libertarianism to replace the lost conversation from last May. We were rejoined for that by Slate’s Stephen Metcalf.
Sandel: What’s the Practical Upshot?
Sandel recommends a society that takes sides about the good and doesn’t pretend to be neutral. So what does that mean for legislation? How can we practically make society less commercial?
Convenience, Thought and Technology
No-one could argue that technology does not make our lives easier, or that technology has not been one of the great liberators in the history of humankind; it certainly has been. Our lives would be more solitary, poorer, nastier, more brutish and shorter without technology, to steal a line from Hobbes. We should hope for continued advances in this liberating Continue Reading …
Is “Do What You Love” Elitist?
Thanks to JSully for pointing me–in the context of our discussions here of New Work–in the direction of the recent Slate article, “In the Name of Love,” by Miya Tokumitsu. Tokumitsu here describes the Steve-Jobsian commandment to “do what you love” as elitism, in that only the elite can afford such a luxury, and valuing only work done through love Continue Reading …
Talking Back to David Brin (on Scientism, the Self, and Conversation)
As I’ve acknowledged, our conversation with David Brin was more monologue, and though we tried to redeem that with the follow-up episode, that still didn’t serve the purpose of actually confronting David with our objections to his views (and his style, for that matter) and getting his reasoned reactions. Well, I had another opportunity to close the circle. He had Continue Reading …
Precogs: Eps. 80-83, 85-87 on Heidegger, Sartre, Jung, Popper, Kuhn, Rawls, and Bergmann
Transcribed introductions to Heidegger, Jung, Popper, Bergmann, Rawls, Kuhn, and Sartre written by the PEL crew.
Mark & Frithjof on Bloggingheads.tv pt. 3: Work You REALLY REALLY WANT
My liveliest discussion yet with Frithjof Bergmann: Watch on Bloggingheads.TV. Again, this will hopefully be old news to those that sat through our PEL podcast with Frithjof and the follow-up Q&A, but we were told that the guy at bloggingheads who was editing our first two videos there still wasn’t sure what New Work actually was, and we felt we Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: Authentic and Roots Music
Listen to “Minnesota Freak” on the Mark Lint and the Fake album, So Whaddaya Think? which you can download in its entirety for free. Also listen to “No Exit.” Today’s musing comes thanks to my visit back to Austin–my first since 2000 when I left grad school and moved to Madison–for Seth’s wedding (Sorry, Seth-lovers! He’s taken now!), which coincidentally Continue Reading …
Mark and Frithjof on Bloggingheads.tv
In light of our podcast discussions here and here, I’m helping Frithjof Bergmann launch what will hopefully be a series of shorter video discussions on New Work at bloggingheads.tv. We made our first recording yesterday, and it has already been posted: Watch at Bloggingheads.tv There shouldn’t be much new here for PEL listeners who’ve already sat through our two interviews Continue Reading …
Feeling Good About Oppression
In the Nietzsche episode, I made a point relating Nietzsche’s “bright side” of slave morality with Hegel’s account of the master-slave encounter. To refresh: Nietzsche’s story in the Genealogy of Morals involves the oppressed turning in on themselves for satisfaction, because they can’t get satisfaction in the usual brutish, masterful way. Nietzsche is often taken in telling this story to Continue Reading …
The Mild Disease of Successful Employment
[Editor’s Note: Thanks to new blogger Jacob Wick for this meditation on work. Now go, everyone! Quit your jobs today! -ML] In Episode 83, Frithjof mentioned the large number of successful individuals that are unhappy with their work in the current job system. The feeling this work is creating was described as a “mild disease.” This resonated so strongly with Continue Reading …
Getting whatcha want, whatcha really really want
As I prepared for our recent podcast on New Work and we interviewed Bergman himself, I found that I have many sympathies with the project. Even without an analysis of the calamitous effect of the current job system on our economy, I can buy the fact that our job system is a structure with rules, implicit and explicit, that are Continue Reading …
Episode 83 Follow-Up: Q&A with Frithjof Bergmann
In light of our ep. 83, many listeners had questions on Frithjof’s social/political/economic proposals for creating a post-job, pro-meaningful-work world.
Bergman and the Native Canadians
There was a comment (Thanks, Libby!) on my topic announcement post reacting to the short-hand way that I conveyed Bergmann’s experience with a native Canadian tribe that I thought would be best responded to simply by providing in full Bergmann’s anecdote about this from the book. So this is an account of one experience he had visiting and initiating a Continue Reading …
Topic for #83: Frithjof Bergmann on the Job System
Listen to Mark’s introduction to this topic via our Precognition mini-episode. On Saturday, 9/21, we’re scheduled to interview Frithjof Bergmann, Professor Emeritus from the University of Michigan, about his book New Work, New Culture (published in German in 2004 and due for English-language release this year). I’ve written on this topic several times on this blog already, so perhaps you’d Continue Reading …
Zen and the Art of Martin Heidegger?
The partially examined podcasters raised a series of very difficult questions in their recent discussion of Heidegger, particularly during a ten-minute stretch beginning about one hour and ten minutes into the 80th episode. These questions all seemed to pivot around one central problem: what does it mean to get right with Being? Should we take this as a kind of Continue Reading …
Not School Digest #3: The Future of Work, Blood Meridian, Embodied Mind, and Heidegger
Excerpts of discussions about Frithjof Bergmann’s New Work, New Culture, Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, and Martin Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism.”
Topic for #77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty
On 5/16 the regular foursome recorded a discussion of The Sense of Beauty (1896) by George Santayana. What is “the beautiful?” Do we have a “sense” by which we grasp it comparable to what Hume describes as the moral sense? Listen to the episode. Where most pre-Humean philosophers considered beauty an objective quality in objects that people then can grasp Continue Reading …
EconTalk on the Technological Singularity
Our blogger and guest podcaster Daniel referred in response to my previous post that EconTalk with host Russ Roberts (pictured) and guest Robin Hanson of George Mason University did an episode on “The Technological Singularity.” The idea here is that at a few points in history, there’s been a technological breakthrough that fundamentally transformed how people can live, which in Continue Reading …