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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Arent's the World of Work and Politics

In part, for arent this is an attack on nineteenth century conceptions of work and politics, labor. But the other reason her book is so interesting is it also speaks to a kind of critique of 20 first century politics and social life. Because we're not living in mark's world, but we are living in jeff bezil's world. This is the world of amazon. This isThe thing about consumption, though individual human lives come to an end, the consumption required to keep the species going never ends. That is when the world of work gets subsumed by the rhythms,. the structures of labor, of consumption... The relentlessness of it, the repetitiousness of

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