
Utopia of Play - an anthropological lens on the modern workplace - exploring play, work, and the worlds we can build when we stop to edit the script. Each episode weaves together personal experience, academic insight, and cultural analysis to trace how we resist invisible rules, reclaim agency, and begin to edit the scripts we’ve inherited. For anyone who's ever felt slightly out of step with the ... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 33 hours ago |
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We all live inside the cage of modern work culture, but that cage doesn't confine everyone equally. This episode asks: whose exhaustion counts as virtue, and whose is simply erased? Who gets to perform the sacrifice of overwork, and who is the sacrif... more
Why are we so exhausted we can only imagine how to hustle harder rather than imagine alternatives?
In this episode, i explore how corporate culture transformed exhaustion from side effect to strategy. From the absurdist theatre of return-to-office ... more
What makes play different from games?
Play and craft offer the power to transform us. Work used to house the technology that allowed us to transition from childhood into autonomous adulthood. But today's work no longer delivers transformation, inst... more
This episode is historical - what was the role of work in early societies? How did Christianity influence labour and play? And what does the modern workplace have to do with plantations?
Watch a Kwakiutl potlatch here
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Why do we work this much? Even hunters and gatherers had shorter work days than us. Play is the crucial ingredient for breakthroughs and new ideas, so why don't we do it more?
This is the first in the series to deconstruct how we got here.
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Elina's been dying to figure out why we don't construct better worlds. Armed with a politics of hope and knowledge of our histories, she's hoping to find ways of solving this crisis of imagination.










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