Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Subject "Thumos"

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Knowledge work compulsion : the neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society

Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)

This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from anywhere, but they also ...
Neoliberal governmentality, knowledge work, and thumos

Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Editura ASE, 2021-11-20)

Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be ...
The relation between work and thumos : a critical interrogation of the motivation behind knowledge work compulsion

Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 2021)

In this paper I attempt to come to a critical understanding of an intriguing phenomenon at the heart of a broader question, i.e. what are we today – as knowledge workers – in relation to our present understood as the ...

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