EM VÃO, O GALO AVISA QUE É DIA: A ABOLIÇÃO DO TRABALHO E A CARREIRA DO ARTISTA

Abstract

Work not only expresses a relationship of concrete domination, based on the exploitation of workers and the extraction of value. Work is also a form of abstract domination, capable of moulding subjectivities and beliefs. At first, the article aims to conceptually locate two types of critical positioning in the face of the refusal to work. On the one hand, certain currents that seek to save and reform labour and, on the other, those that want the complete abolition of the work-form. It then looks at some expressions of the abstract domination of labour, how it specifically conditions the construction of subjects and perceptions of time, desire and progress. Finally, the text closes with some particular considerations about the artist's profession and how the ontological imperative of labour directly affects artistic practice itself in the most recent neoliberal context.