Per my message last week, I just attended the New Work, New Culture Conference in Detroit this last weekend. Now, this was organized by folks from the Boggs Center, so the overall orientation of the conference was one of activism against the "occupation" of Detroit. I don't know the number of attendees at this point, but it was a gym packed with people, many from Detroit but Continue Reading …
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Thoreau’s Unsupported Anti-Technology Sentiments and New Work
If you're new to PEL and don't know what "New Work" refers to, go listen to our episode interviewing Frithjof Bergmann, or my short precog on the topic, or check out the videos on the New Work channel I manage, or read one of the many articles I've written here about it (like this one). There's a "Worldwide Conference" coming up on New Work in Detroit on Oct. 18-20 that I'll Continue Reading …
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 doing 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, a built-in goal, a type of Continue Reading …