What are the best anti-work books?

Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville)
The Right to Laziness (Lafargue)
A Season in Hell (Rimbaud)
Laziness - the Real Truth of Mankind (Malevich)
Murphy (Beckett)
The Accursed Share (Bataille)
The Space of Literature (Blanchot)
the "works" of Emil Cioran
Madness and Civilization (Foucault)
issues of Situationniste internationale
The Infinite Conversation (Blanchot)
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (Klossowski)
The Mirror of Production (Baudrillard)
Symbolic Exchange and Death (Baudrillard)
The Abolition of Work (Black)
The Inoperative Community (Nancy)
The Thirst for Annihilation (Land)
Marcel Duchamp and the Refusal of Work (Lazzarato)
Inventing the Future (Srnicek/Williams)
The Refusal of Work (Frayne)
The Problem with Work (Weeks)
The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought (Hemmens)

some of these are more anti-work in an extended philosophical sense, others more directly labor-social, etc.

Russian anons translate this. I’m too fucking lazy

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The 20% is probably standing army or retarded.

first square: >fucking lazy pig man not get a job while I clean house! You are pig man I will go find man at bar with good job and sleep with him
square two: fucking bitch wife why not let me do sleeping I will get job when I want to which is never fuck work and fuck you stupid bitch wife
other russians help lease

Ok I will do it myself

The fates have given you a gift. It is infinitely better to be an idler, a lounger, a flaneur than a zoom zoom go-getter douchebag. You— and I, I like to think— are among the aelite of this world. We float above the common vulgar world of Work. If we must spend some of our hours “on the clock” that we may buy bread and internet, so be it— our minds remain free, and since we don’t check our laziness at the door, we won’t work that hard anyway.

As Dr Johnson says, “Every man is, or hopes to be, an Idler.” But we know that true idlers are rarae aves. With a heavy-lidded and disdainful eye we survey the vain and ludicrous flailings of the normie-at-work, and we enjoy a supercilious chuckle at their expense.

We are the real aristocrats of the soul.

Damn

Does he let the reader know what jobs are good?

OP, why did you have to fuck up and miss the opportunity to colocate an actual wojak face for the ant. The air of memetic non-resolution genuinely vexes me. What a disappointment.

Do your fucking duty, user

And what's that?

He goes out of his way to deflect criticism about his own job being bullshit in a very stupid way:

>Now, I realise any such argument is going to run into immediate objections: ‘who are you to say what jobs are really “necessary”? What's necessary anyway? You're an anthropology professor, what's the “need” for that?’ (And indeed a lot of tabloid readers would take the existence of my job as the very definition of wasteful social expenditure.)

Contribute with whatever you can to the general good. Whining about wanting to be lazy is not a way to do that.

What's the general good?

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

If you're playing Socrates, get to the point. I don't believe you're dumb enough not to understand the general thrust of my point here.

see Please don't dodge the question this time

lafargue's "the right to be lazy". written by marx's son-in-law

utterly based post

>He contends that over half of societal work is pointless
>"why yes, I have absolutely no understanding of basic economics, how can you tell?"

The general good, as I use it (loosely) here, is referring to the collective material and spiritual welfare of your given society. If you want to partake in that good, it is your duty to contribute to it. It's hard to justify parasitism under most accepted systems of values, after all.

>You overslept your lectures again! Why did you even bother entering college, if you don't attend it? Go look for a job, you freeloader!
>But Mom, modern capitalist economy replaced genuine existence, manifested in Being-to-death, for artificial Being-to-deadline. A man loses the connectiong to the Being, turning into a machine for creation of surplus value.

>I'm tired of your excuses! Why did I let you major in philosophy?! That's it, chose! Either you quit your major, or you quit living in this house!
>Mom, you, as does the capitalism, substitute genuine existential choice for a consumerist choice. "Or-or", actually there are much more choices, the dichotomy is unwarranted! The 21st century revolutionary is a grand procrastinator!

>Now from the marginal position I see even clearly how the society has fallen! You should never work! You ought to have courage to use your own mind!

>It's hard to justify parasitism under most accepted systems of values, after all.
imagine actually believing this

That has nothing to do with NEETs. "Bullshit jobs" are jobs that consist of doing nothing while getting paid aka the NEET dream. That book is just neoliberal efficiency bullshit.

Bruh is it possible for you to see a therapist?

Bitter taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

my diary desu

Iirc he guy is an anarchist, and he talks about jobs whose uselessness brings misery to those who do them.
Imagine spending 8 hours a day in an office, not doing anything useful, but being too monitored to really do anything else, and wasting your life away in a mix of anguish, giult and boredom. That is what he's talking about.
Desk jobs used to be considered rather cushy, there was often little work and pressure involved, but nowadays we're collectively very committed to the idea that your value as a man derives from your ability to stay at your desk from 9 am to 7 pm without complaining.
See the Japanese for how that can reach pathological proportions at the level of a whole society.

LEECH

>but nowadays we're collectively very committed to the idea that your value as a man derives from your ability to stay at your desk from 9 am to 7 pm without complaining.

I don't really see that desu. Everyone thinks those kind of jobs suck and more and more people are falling in to "gig economy" type jobs while dreaming of being an entrepreneur. Maybe this is an experience that is not evenly distributed across generations, idk.

The abolition of work by Bob Black

Get Rid of Work by Gilles Dauve:
libcom.org/library/get-rid-work-gilles-dauve

Thank you user

In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell

>Lazy ants are brown
Hmm

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Do any of these make Theological arguments? Most, if not all, of the work done today is for the mitigation of the consequences of yesterday's work and for the preparation of tomorrow's work. Worse still, this is not even expedient in the mundane sense, toward tomorrow's leisure, but anti-expedient, all work is explicitly toward more work. Any arguments for work as Demiurgic?

glance at his bibliography

>Despite

What species of ant was this study using?

Are you sure that he isn't just being funny there? Autistics tend to miss that

Cope: the post