How Severance Rejects 'Work-Life Balance'

'I've come here to make a ceramic shoe / And I've come to smash what you made' Help me make more stuff like this: https://www.patreon.com/pillarofgarbage Or join my channel on YouTube with a Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7XOnnm5NYz6JxUuG_dSVw/join Follow me on BlueSky! https://bsky.app/profile/pillarofgarbage.bsky.social Watch my podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@PillarOfGarbagePoGcast Join the Pillar of Garbage Discord server! https://discord.gg/WQEk4UPeC6 Timestamps: 0:00 The preamble 0:33 I, Life as a see-saw 14:16 II, Spillover and cybertime: a story 19:10 III, The cognitariat and neoliberal precarity 26:01 IV, Vampire capitalism 33:37 V, The map of our wanderings 38:22 VI, Bad news about hell 41:08 VII, Good news about hell 45:20 The postamble Works cited: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, After the Future, AK Press, 2011 (trans. Arianna Bove, Melinda Cooper, Erik Empson, Enrico, Giuseppina Mecchia, and Tiziana Terranova) Read: https://www.are.na/block/633024 Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, Editions Odile Jacob, 1998 (cited in Berardi's After the Future, p.52) Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, Zero Books, 2022 Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn, Preface, in After the Future by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, AK Press, 2011 Ayesha Khan, 'Work/ life balance' is a capitalist myth & rejecting it is a liberating practice, Cosmic Anarchy, 2022 Read: https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/work-life-balance-is-a-capitalist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism, 1909 Read: https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manifesto_futurista.pdf Emily Maskell, Severance and the myth of work-life balance, Little White Lies, 2022. Read: https://lwlies.com/articles/severance-and-the-myth-of-work-life-balance/ Kristy Threlkeld, Employee Burnout Report, Indeed, 2021 Read: https://uk.indeed.com/lead/preventing-employee-burnout-report Description topline is from 'Scratchcard Lanyard' by Dry Cleaning Please see this external document (description character limit moment) for articles / footage shown visually but not quoted from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LSZiocA7Dg7KsxpAO8C4hUsNyAlJ2Sh5JBD0Y5M9kPM/edit?usp=sharing Also, here's that Skip Intro video I mention: https://youtu.be/7AOdHEm4PCs?si=y243b7pINEB2uaPh And thanks to (in order of appearance) @Afterthoughts, @TSDTalks22, @hotcyder, @NandovMovies, @TheAdamSplitter, @ActualFandom, and @agramuglia for their quote reads!