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Dominique Pagani approaches labour through Hegel: he sees it as a negation of natural being-there. The slave, who cannot annihilate the thing, transforms it and finds himself in it1. For him, labour is a practical consciousness, a relation mediated by the instrument, which sets it apart from animal destruction2. He contrasts the binary relation of worker to object, which has prevailed since Aristotle, with the ternary relation introduced by Rousseau, in which the object mediates the relation to others3. With Rousseau, he also holds that social man owes in labour the price of his upkeep, even in a world without capital4. In Marx, he distinguishes activity from value-creating labour, and he notes that labour is alienating or liberating depending on the relations in which it takes place, not on the tool5. With Clouscard, he describes labour as the unconscious of a playful society, where the magic of objects requires forgetting those who produce them6.

  1. 1Hegel Plage 4/52 Feb 2016 · 1:24:07
  2. 2#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 1:06:14
  3. 3Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 9:15
  4. 4#16 Michel Clouscard : "Y a pas de vacances dans le concept !" - Dominique Pagani7 Jul 2022 · 31:04
  5. 5Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 1:36:30
  6. 6TOUT EST PERMIS, RIEN N'EST POSSIBLE ! Michel Clouscard, Mai 68 et le capitalisme de la séduction14 Jul 2021 · 44:13

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Talks · 20 May 2018Marxist Café - Work and the right to work
  1. 9:15Since Aristotle, a binary relation of the worker to the object; with Rousseau, a ternary relation in which the object mediates the relation to the other.
  2. 28:40Social man lives at the expense of others and owes them, in work, the price of his upkeep: working is a duty.
  3. 1:36:30In Marx work is sometimes alienating, sometimes liberating; this depends on the relations, not on the tool.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5
  1. 38:42Labor is the negation of natural being-there, which opposes the negation already exercised by nature.
  2. 1:24:07The slave cannot annihilate the thing, he transforms it through his labor and finds himself in it; he liberates himself there from natural being-there.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2
  1. 20:25Labor that has value only for me is not exchangeable; only social production creates a marketable value.
  2. 32:27All labor is an activity, but not all activity is labor that creates value.
  3. 48:38Activity useful to others and shareable in exchange; Marx does not glorify it and fights to reduce its duration.

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