The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. I think about this a lot when my company gives us “Wellness Days” off: Due to the very success of this separate production of separation, the fundamental experience that in earlier societies was associated with people’s primary work is in the process of being replaced (in sectors near the cutting edge of the system’s evolution) by an identification of life with nonworking time, with inactivity. But such inactivity is in no way liberated from...
