Andre Gorz – Critique of Economic Reason

“But each individual is master of only a minute fraction of the expanding wealth of knowledge employed. The culture of work has fragmented into thousands of tiny areas of specialized know-how and has thus been cut off from the culture of everyday life” (Gorz,  1989: 91).

“Everyday life has splintered into isolated pockets of time and space, a succession of excessive, aggressive demands, dead periods and periods of routine activity. This fragmentation, which is so resistant to a lived experience of integration, ‘is reflected in a (non-)culture of everyday life, made up of thrills, transitory fashions, spectacular entertainment and fragments of news” (Gorz,  1989: 91).

Gorz, A. (1988). Critique of economic reason. (Gillian Handyside & Chris Turner, Trans.). Verso.