Problems at Work: Spatial Tensions in Modern Workspaces.

摘要

"Problems at Work: Spatial Tensions in Modern Workspaces" combines literary and theoretical representations of workspaces and theories of work with examinations of real contemporary workspaces. In an effort to demonstrate the important role that literary spaces can play in determining ways out of and around corporate capitalism, each chapter addresses a distinct and varied cluster of theories of power and resistance, as well as specific literary representations of work and workspaces. Through the tracing of affect and materiality in fictional representations of work, it can be seen that productive emotional and embodied forces exist within the workers' uses and intentional misuses of office space. Whether or not there is any possibility of uprising against capitalism remains to be seen, but the descriptive performance of the study as a whole represents one possibility for garnering awareness and reinvigorating creative resistant tactics that do not easily fold into capitalist production.