This chapter explores the spaces of labour, the birth of ergonomics and its intersection with both the military and the prison industrial complex. From medieval bloodletting rituals, to transhuman war veterans, from time saving devices to factory panopticons, from architectural standards to a modernist lifestyle design, this chapter traces the slow transformation of architecture into the spatial organization of exhaustion.
References:
00’15” Harry Belafonte “Go Down Emanuel Road”
02’10” Jehan Brassart “Gratulemur Christicole”
03’03” Marsilio Ficino, “On caring for the health of men of letters”, The Book of Life, translated by Charles Boer p. 27-30
06’02” Practical Demonstrations of Ergonomic Principles
07’40” Kraftwerk “The Man Machine”
07’58” Douglas C. McMurtrie, Reconstructing the Crippled Soldier p.29
09’28” Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland “4 Minutes”
10’50” The Pajama Game, Eddie Foy Jr “Think of the Time I Save”
12’11” Norma Rae, 1979
14’19” Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, p.288
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Lila Athanasiadou
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3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business
From 1960’s utopian re-imaginings of the house of the future, to Wages Against Housework, this chapter explores the versatile and invisible character of female labour. Read more
1. Introduction
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