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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt">9 September, Friday | 0930h SGT | Zoom Webinar |
<span style="color:#ED7D31"><a href="https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApfumuqDIrE9FkrmrruiFn1susLQ_YkzSf"><span style="color:#ED7D31">Register here</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Renyi Hong, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and New Media</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">National University of Singapore</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://renyihong.org/">renyihong.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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