"By popular request, it’s the Ordinary Unhappiness Severance episode! Abby, Patrick, and Dan reflect on the hit show from the perspectives of political economy and libidinal economy, from Adam Smith to Adam Scott to Karl Marx to Mark S and beyond (with plenty of Freud and workplace war stories along the way). What ensues is less about answering plot mysteries (although spoilers abound) than it is about exploring how the show poses questions about repression, the division of labor, alienation, and more. What does working do to us as individuals, as co-workers, and as political subjects? How do our workplaces and their rituals channel our desires and our anxieties, shape our personas, and even divvy up our basic experiences of space and time? What are the psychic wages of maintaining “work-life balance” and what interventions – technological, chemical, and ideological – do we rely on to “make it work”? Does living under capitalism mean that we have always already been severed, and what should we expect about the limits, and the possibilities, of prestige television when it comes to representing the paradoxes and foreclosures of capitalism itself?"

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/episodes/16917156

#Work #WageSlavery #PoliticalEconomy #Severance #Alienation #Capitalism

C’est l’heure de dresser le bilan du mois passé. Et comme je n’avais pas matière à en faire un en février, c’est un bilan de deux mois qui vous attend sur le blog. Si j’ai eu peu de lecture pour plein de raisons, j’ai pas mal joué et j’ai aussi un petit retour film et série à vous proposer.
Alors rendez-vous sur le blog pour tout ça: https://yuyine.be/node/1311

#blog #critique #critiquelitteraire #bookreview #book #books #livre #lecture #pixelbook #SFFF #Bilan #jeuxvideos #jeuxindé #nextfest #splitfiction #wildrobot #severance

Back from Ireland, catching up on my Apple feed.

This "Severance" behind the scenes video Apple released a few days ago was fascinating, especially if you are a fan of how these sorts of shows are edited.

A few spoilers for Season 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXNQ01Sy6Xw
#Severance

#Severance Melon Party prepared lovingly by Mrs B (excuse the unironed tablecloth).

5 melons between 4 people seems excessive but I'm not saying anything for fear of divorce.

Visited Bell Labs in in Holmdel, #NJ yesterday, better known as the filming location for my beloved #Severance. Despite the sweaty abundance of holiday pop-up shops, it had its own light touch of #dystopia, since “Bell” was appended to everything: Bell Health, Bell Wellness, Bell Market, Bar Bell…a. Fun for the whole (Bell) family!