Pieces

MagicM. Voss
The Egregore at the Desk: On Collective Thought-Forms and the Spirit of the Corporation

Every company has a soul. Nobody agreed to give it one. That is the problem.

14 min
PhilosophyR. Tanaka
Faust's Bargain, Updated: On Selling Your Labour in the Age of Algorithmic Management

Mephistopheles has been replaced by a dashboard. The terms are worse.

18 min
HistoryS. Okafor
The Sacred and the Banal: Ritual Theory and the Morning Commute

Every repeated act is a ritual. The question is only who it serves.

12 min
WitchcraftC. Morrow
Witchcraft as Labour Resistance: From the Sabbath to the Sick Day

The witch was not feared for her power. She was feared for her refusal.

22 min
PhilosophyA. Lindqvist
The Body That Works: On Productive Rituals, Exhaustion, and the Flesh as Resource

Capitalism did not invent the working body. It only perfected the extraction.

10 min
PhilosophyD. Park
The Managed Body: Wellness Culture and the Colonisation of Rest

When your employer subsidises your meditation app, who is the meditation for?

16 min
PhilosophyM. Voss
Hauntology at the Desk: Mark Fisher and the Ghost of the Future That Never Came

Capitalist realism is not a theory. It is the ambient hum of every open-plan office.

20 min
HistoryT. Brennan
The Guild, the Union, the Coven: On Collective Bodies and Collective Power

Three kinds of solidarity. One enemy. A very long war.

15 min
PhilosophyR. Tanaka
Night Shift Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty, Exhaustion, and the Dissolution of the Self

At 4am, the body stops being yours. It becomes the job's.

11 min
FilmS. Okafor
Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman and the Infinite Labour of the Ordinary

Three hours and twenty minutes of domestic work. The most political film ever made.

17 min
WitchcraftC. Morrow
Hex the Boss: A History of Workplace Cursing from Mesopotamia to the Modern Office

The curse tablet is the oldest form of HR complaint. It was more effective.

13 min
BooksT. Brennan
Kafka's Castle as Org Chart: On Bureaucracy, Futility, and the Unreadable Memo

The Castle is not a place. It is a process — and the process has no end.

15 min
Occult LaborThe sacred, banal, and strange world of work.