‘Desirability equals disposability: it is on the basis of this diabolical logic that global digital capitalism puts all our lives to market in myriad ways that have long been familiar to the most marginalized among us. At the same time, the deep technological interconnectedness of contemporary human lives offers new possibilities for redistribution, communisation and “unwork”. How can today’s Bartlebys, in solidarity with each other’s desires, rebuild the ability to say “I would prefer not to” together on this terrain and, going beyond that, determine what it is we want? Combining an unprecedented overview of contemporary paradoxes in the politics of anti-work with a fresh and sophisticated argument for a liberatory post-capitalist horizon predicated on sharing limits, Work, Want, Work is a marvellously compact, well-written, informative and thoughtful book.’

Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family