In this episode: Kathi Week’s The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Now, to be fair, we’re not going to examine the whole book, not yet anyway. Today we’re going to be looking at utopianism as a philosophical and political project, teleology and nonteleological utopian thinking. We're also going to run a bit of a who's who and what's what with Plato and Aristotle, Karl Popper, Francis Fukuyama, and Ernst Bloch as well as the logic of Rationalism and Intelligent Design. Even Star Trek makes a brief appearance. Engage!

Obligatory bibliography, or books (and articles) you may also want to check out:

Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2011

Boldyrev, Ivan. “Ernst Bloch.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bloch/
Gorton, William. “Karl Popper: Political Philosophy” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/popp-pol/#SH1a

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