A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present, that challenges some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our sp...
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present, that challenges some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our species' history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before? 'For too long, our notions of work have been dominated by economists obsessed with scarcity and productivity. As an anthropologist, James Suzman is here to change that . . . This book is a tour de force' Adam Grant 'Groundbreaking . . . Exposes the productivity-at-all-costs mindset to strike a blow at the myth of the economic problem. I learned something new on every page' Grace Blakeley 'Brilliant . . . I thought I had read enough by now to know what work is and why we so often feel compelled to work - but I was wrong' Danny Dorling
薛定谔曾以熵来定义生命，认为生命要维持自身就要吸收低熵，而肖恩·卡罗尔也说要做功就要消耗能量，因此要从环境中捕获自由能；或许因此詹姆斯·苏兹曼才在Work：A History of How We Spend Our Time中才说“基因决定我们必须工作”。 在植物身上我们也能看到这种现象，就如向...
(展开)
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? ——Philip Larkin 'Toads' 新卢德主义 第四次工业革命的概念是在2013年汉诺威工业博览会上正式提出的。最初是指利用物联信息系统，将生产中的供应，制造，销售...
(展开)
能量耗散，工作的起源 英文标题 Work: a history of how we spend our time. 作者在英文标题当中玩弄了一个比较隐蔽的文字游戏，work在这里是工作的意思，也是物理学意义上做功的意思。所谓有机体生命它的特点就在于可以有意识的转化利用能量。所以工作也可以理解为人类在做功...
(展开)
老彭是個书脊党
中信出版集团2021版
风撼斜阳
中信出版集团2021版
披萨蘸醋
中信出版集团2021版
阿雅读书写作馆
中信出版集团2021版
小宇宙
中信出版集团2021版
飞翔的古尔德
中信出版集团2021版
0 有用 一缶堂 2024-03-10 18:43:28 黑龙江
啰里啰嗦 废话连篇 遣词造句故弄玄虚