tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358148998045555545.post6601241964578234128..comments2024-03-28T04:27:27.713-05:00Comments on May Day Books Blog: Gear-Heads Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Cubicles!Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629684440934461513noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358148998045555545.post-37277335744337774102010-07-14T22:46:46.003-05:002010-07-14T22:46:46.003-05:00I enjoyed that post.
Crawford has some good ideas...I enjoyed that post.<br /><br />Crawford has some good ideas, mixed up with his confused ideas as on alienation. I liked the part about non-digitalized labor. That is also becoming extinct.<br /><br />Nations today are moving towards protectionism and exporting unemployment.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358148998045555545.post-73577723450637952772010-07-02T15:36:54.395-05:002010-07-02T15:36:54.395-05:00I have a copy of the book. I would say he's an...I have a copy of the book. I would say he's an advocate of craftsmanship and the "way of being" that involves -- contrasted with the sterility of white-collar work (which Crawford, as a Ph.D. foundation official, knows something about). The book is roughly along the same lines as Richard Sennett's "The Craftsman." Pirsig was talking more about the elusive notion of "quality" which he saw in Plato but not Aristotle.<br /><br />The boom originally began as an essay, which can be found here:<br />http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft<br /><br />I recommend both the essay and the book.AAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13242448989166177843noreply@blogger.com