• Laziness

  • May 7 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
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Laziness

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  • We’re taking it easy! In episode 103 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a leisurely dive into laziness, discussing everything from couchrotting to the biology of energy conservation. They explore Devon Price’s idea of the ‘laziness lie’ in today’s hyperproductive society and search for alternatives to work through Paul Lefargue’s 19th century campaign for ‘the right to be lazy.’ They also look into the racialization of laziness in Ibn Khaldun and Montesquieu’s ideas on the idle tropics, and think through how the Protestant work ethic punishes laziness, even when technology could take care of the work.

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    Works Discussed

    Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
    Roland Barthes, “Let us dare to be lazy”
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
    Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Christine Jeske, The Laziness Myth
    Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah
    Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
    Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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