[csaa-forum] [BOOK TALK] "Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life" by Professor Renyi Hong

[Rosemary Therese Overell]

Hello,

You’re welcome to join us for the following book talk:

Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life
9 September, Friday | 0930h SGT | Zoom Webinar | Register here<https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApfumuqDIrE9FkrmrruiFn1susLQ_YkzSf>

Finding passion for one’s work is often described as a positive ideal. It is commonly held in relation to the good life, something which hinges on the uncomplicated desire that work might provide human life with purpose, financial well-being, and success. But how is this relationship a subject of historical inheritance? And how has it been used to legitimate transformations in both work culture and economic life?

This project examines how passionate work has reconfigured the ideas of the good life, reframing what workers can hope for to stretch their capacities of tolerance. Towards that end, Renyi Hong examines the inverse of what is typically registered as passion, looking into how states of apathy, boredom, and loneliness are presented as contemporary problems which require the internalization of a passionate subjectivity.

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Renyi Hong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and New Media
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
Web: renyihong.org<https://renyihong.org/>


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