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Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

At the end of the last century, predictions about the destructive potential of the Y2K bug were everywhere. As the clocks ticked closer to the prophesied end-times, Capitalism—then in the rapturous throes of a global tech bubble—did what it does best: created a whole cottage industry of consultants dedicated not to preventing the apocalypse, but to ensuring the steady flow of profits. Join Leigh Claire La Berge as she dissects her time as one of these management consultants, offering an inside look at the absurd cultural and political economic consequences of Capitalism's singular focus on the bottom line.

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Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art , Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary, and, most recently, Fake Work... Read More →

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Economics