A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of latestage capitalismonly to end up living comfortably alongside it
What do postwork politics the cult of crypto clubbing and polyamory have in common All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal capitalist order from wage labor to the reign of the shareholder class over capital markets to romantic relationships that feel like contractual arrangements to be negotiated and more
People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work intimacy and technology labor and leisure and the challenge of living our ideals in a less than ideal world In it Sally Olds brings her unsparing scrutiny to bearas she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification ABC Arts
In one essay Oldss brief flirtation with postmonogamy forces her to confront the emotional prison of the open relationship in another a multihour viewing of a critically acclaimed performance art piece highlights how even the highest forms of culture exist to convert pleasure into capital
In the end her forays into these colorful worlds betray a deep irony escaping a system built on the exchange of wage labor is quite simply a lot of work
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