{"id":5012,"date":"2017-08-08T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:44:19","slug":"philosophicum-lech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/en\/2017\/08\/08\/philosophicum-lech\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage to embrace laziness."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"fliesstext\">20.09. \u2013 24.09.2017<br \/>\n<\/span>No work, no play?<\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">This year\u2019s Philosophicum Lech questions the future of work ethic.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">If there\u2019s one thing the Vorarlbergers have never been accused of, it\u2019s laziness. However, the stereotype of the Alemanni, who are always diligent in fulfi lling their work ethos, threatens to fall under the digital revolution in the working world. This year\u2019s Philosophicum Lech is questioning what that might mean for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">In the future, what will we understood by the term work when, in many areas, machinery and algorithms are taking over a large part of the work activities that we still carry out today as part of gainful employment? Does it even make sense to propagate the Protestant ethos \u201che who does not work, neither shall he eat\u201d if what we currently know as gainful employment soon runs out of tasks for us?<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">The obligation to Work has hitherto been the fundamental foundation of the social contract in almost all societies. Even beyond ideological boundaries \u2013 in both communism and today\u2019s dominant neoliberal fi nancial capitalism \u2013 albeit with signifi cantly different conclusions and imperatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">Until now, there was widespread agreement that \u201cwork is obviously the decisive source of the prosperity, value, and dignity of a person \u2013 regardless of political direction\u201d, as Konrad Paul Liessmann, scientifi c director of the Philosophicum Lech, summarises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Lafargue had already held a \u201cright to laziness\u201d against this work ethos at the end of the 19th century. His criticism is aimed at the supposed necessity of permanent economic growth and the associated compulsion to consume. Lafargue\u2019s criticism of the \u201creligion of labour\u201d, as he calls it, attracted both the criticism of capitalist and communist theorists at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, on the verge of a time when, on the one hand, artifi cial intelligence and robotics irreversibly change the working world and, on the other hand, the shortage of resources worldwide pulls the rug out from under the dogma of permanent economic growth, the overall conditions are completely diffrent. The debate on an unconditional basic income is should be viewed from perspectives where full employment in the traditional sense of the concept of gainful employment is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">Not only is work ethic as such a matter of debate, but also the fundamental understanding of the concept of work \u2013 or even its supposed counterpart, laziness. What do we mean by these terms today? In a time when more and more people are increasingly moving away from this \u201cold\u201d work ethos and putting other meaningful values from their perspective into the foreground, this is probably one of the most exciting questions that one can contemplate, and to which the Philosophicum Lech seeks answers.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>INFO<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>21. Philosophicum Lech<\/strong>\r\nMut zur Faulheit. Die Arbeit und ihr Schicksal\r\n20.09. \u2013 24.09.2017\r\nLech am Arlberg\r\n\r\n<strong>Philosophisch-literarischer Vorabend:<\/strong>\r\nMichael K\u00f6hlmeier und Konrad Paul Liessmann \u2013 Von der Tr\u00e4gheit des Herzens\r\n20.09.2017, 18.00 Uhr\r\n\r\n<strong>Tractatus \u2013 Der Essaypreis des Philosophicum Lech<\/strong>\r\nPreisverleihung\r\n22.09.2017, 21.00 Uhr\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophicum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.philosophicum.com <\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20.09. \u2013 24.09.2017 No work, no play? This year\u2019s Philosophicum Lech questions the future of work ethic. If there\u2019s one thing the Vorarlbergers have never been accused of, it\u2019s laziness. However, the stereotype of the Alemanni, who are always diligent in fulfi lling their work ethos, threatens to fall under the digital revolution in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,267,341,231,79,196],"tags":[394,383],"class_list":{"0":"post-5012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gegenwartskultur-en","8":"category-democracy-discourse","9":"category-events-4-en","10":"category-festivals-en","11":"category-kreative-orte-en","12":"category-vorarlberg-en","13":"tag-diskurs-en","14":"tag-vorarlberg-en"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Courage to embrace laziness. &#187; CREATIVE AUSTRIA \u2013 Contemporary Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/en\/2017\/08\/08\/philosophicum-lech\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Courage to embrace laziness. &#187; CREATIVE AUSTRIA \u2013 Contemporary Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"20.09. \u2013 24.09.2017 No work, no play? 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