I should specify that by 'joy in work', I'm not referring to garden-variety job satisfaction, mere fun or pride in accomplishment. What I have in mind hinges on a comment regarding the Saint Simonians by Walter Benjamin:
with the Saint Simonians, industrial labor is seen in the light of sexual intercourse; the idea of the joy of working is patterned after an image of the pleasure of procreation.
Nice quote S-man, working as a love affair between the individual and the social, from which the latter is reproduced so also reproduces the individual. We spiral on.
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