Dreamwork

Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research at the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (2019).

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In this book, with his inimitable flair for rooting out the phenomenological intricacies of apparently ordinary things, Steven Connor leads us on a tour of the dream factory of work, labour, toil and occupation. The result is a book of typically considerable – dare I say it – detective work that opens up the quotidian reality and enabling dreamscape of work to new understanding. - Nathan Waddell, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of BirminghamThis is a delight of a book. It takes the seemingly innocuous concept of "work" and shows how central our understanding of it is to our collective understanding of the world. The book is beautifully written in a cascade of illuminating paradoxes and puns. It is also a treasure trove of scholarship from philology to management theory. A must-read. - Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of Critical Quarterly