Leigh Claire La Berge

This is simply a wonderful genealogy of global leftism. Highly recommend!

Fantastic book!

excited to read this!

"Fake Work" spotted in new and noteworthy non-fiction at McNally Jackson Williamsburg with @maris.bsky.social and @haymarketbooks.org

With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.

Total shot in the dark, but anyone on here study with Richard Marius at U Tenn Knoxville in the late 1960s / early 1970s?

I didn’t know this!

Thank you!

Fantastic!

"Business"

Aught Bourgeois, by Leigh Claire La Berge

So nice to see a section of "Fake Work" in this month's @harpers.bsky.social under the truly great title, "Aught Bourgeois."

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thanks! and I agree, @poltheoryother.bsky.social totally worth it

Welcome new followers! ICYMI I’m a Marxist humorist who just wrote a book called Fake Work

What’s your book? Do post it!

Happy Bastille Day! Feline reminder that philosophical patron saint of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, put a cat on the cover of "The Social Contract" because cats were his “test of character”; those who don’t enjoy cats “have the despotic instinct of men.”
@dukepress.bsky.social

Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic - Public Books “There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”

For anyone interested in species history, animal history, environmental history, can't recommend this scholar's work enough. Great interview, too.
@publicbooks.bsky.social
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absolutely love her work

Love this combo—enjoy!

Fake work and Y2K w/ Leigh Claire La Berge In 1998 Leigh Claire La Berge was hired by a major communications conglomerate, where she worked alongside employees of the soon to be disgraced Arther Anderson (the auditor of companies involved in h

There are a few podcasts I listen to regularly. @doughenwood.bsky.social, 's is one, @poltheoryother.bsky.social by Alex Doherty is another. It was so nice to get a chance to talk with Alex about "Fake Work."

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It's an interesting provocation. I'm thinking also of Klaus Theweleit's "Male Fantasies" in which fascists dream of horses.

Melinda Cooper starter pack but it's only her. FYI she's one of the most creative, incisive critics of American political economy; well worth a follow for fellow travelers.

@melindacooper.bsky.social

fantastic! I've been waiting to read something like this

!! thanks

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I had a lot of fun talking about the "Fake Work," and the fraudulent meritocracy of management consulting and, although we didn't call it this, the real work of Zohranomics (thanks @johncassidysays.bsky.social)

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Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response If there’s a Proustian madeleine of my Fortune 500 life that continues to pull me into the past, that evokes a corporate nostalgia and longing, neither of which qualifies as enjoyable but both of w…

Read @lclaberge.bsky.social on the Y2K techno-apocalypse that wasn’t

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response If there’s a Proustian madeleine of my Fortune 500 life that continues to pull me into the past, that evokes a corporate nostalgia and longing, neither of which qualifies as enjoyable but both of w…

Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for running a bit of "Fake Work." Think of the recording, "this call may be monitored for Quality Assurance," and know that I, once, was said monitor, ready to assure that my company's Y2K prep was done with quality. @haymarketbooks.org

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The Joke’s On Us: Capitalism, Paperwork and Other Rituals of Collapse - anti capitalist musings The work isn’t fake because it’s imaginary—it’s fake because it pretends to matter. We clock in, log on, file the forms, and call it a life.

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com helps me understand my own project. He describes "Fake Work" as "a surrealist audit of late capitalism," and says it's "the only work memoir I’ve ever read that doesn’t lie to you." @haymarketbooks.org

anticapitalistmusings.com/2025/06/the-...

Always great chatting with @doughenwood.bsky.social
about capitalism's foibles and follies, of which there are plenty in "Fake Work" just out from
@haymarketbooks.org

excited to hear your thoughts!