[matilda] Proposal for workshop(s) No one should ever work. Bob Black

[Dan]

Sounds like a plan. Damn fine topic.

"In Soviet history and iconography, a Stakhanovite follows the example 
of Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, employing hard work or Taylorist 
efficiencies to over-achieve on the job.

"The Stakhanovite movement began during the second 5-year plan in 1935 
as a new stage of the socialist competition. The Stakhanovite movement 
was named after Aleksei Stakhanov, who had mined 102 tons of coal in 
less than 6 hours (14 times his quota). However, his record would soon 
be "broken" by his followers. On February 1, 1936 it was reported that 
Nikita Izotov had mined 607 tons of coal in a single shift."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite

(Cut n paste joy!)

Dan


worldwarfree at riseup.net wrote:
> We began then for some reson they come to an end workshops at Matilda well
> idd like to propose a workshop on the following text..
> 
> No one should ever work. Bob Black
> 
> Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the
> evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world
> designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
> 
> That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a
> new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. By
> "play" I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and
> maybe even art. There is more to play than child's play, as worthy as that
> is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely
> interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive. Doubtless we all need a lot
> more time for sheer sloth and slack than we ever enjoy now, regardless of
> income or occupation, but once recovered from employment-induced
> exhaustion nearly all of us [will] want [to] act. Oblomovism and
> Stakhanovism are two sides of same debased coin.
> 
> The ludic life is totally incompatible with existing reality. So much the
> worse for "reality," the gravity hole that sucks the vitality from the
> little in life that still distinguishes it from mere survival.
> Curiously—maybe not—all the old ideologies are conservative because they
> believe in work. Some of them, like Marxism and most brands of anarchism,
> believe in work all the more fiercely because they believe in so little
> else.
> 
> You can read it on line here
> http://pretentiousartist.com/work/
> 
> Ill print some off for the meeting Monday ill do a pdf sometime today
> it will be here
> http://pretentiousartist.com/work/workpdf
> 
> My thinking is March 1st from 7.30 at Matilda will also do a flyer
> and further communcations if there are no objections on list or following
> the meeting Monday ill get them done for Tuesday and start geting some
> intrest..
> 
> 0742
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