Representation of Labor & Work

Open to Art School BFA 2 and above.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.

Representation of Labor and Work (Reading Group)
The starting point of this course was a critique
in fall 2016. Expanding the questions that came
up through the work of the participants, the
reading group will continue to look at concepts
in relation to the representation of labor and
work. Once a stable category, labor and its
representation have come into a crisis. To
understand this crisis, one might look at work
carefully, but also read its connections to
history, and follow the contemporary and
philosophical debates of this struggling and much
debated field. We will read and discuss texts in
relation to the history of labor, and the notions
of a changing "work-scape." The course is open to
new students who were not part of the critique in
fall.