Never Work Talks: Helen Hester, Anajara Amarante, Olivia Hyunsin Kim

The event kicks off on June 24 with a look at a possible future and the question of what a “post-work” society might look like—a world, in other words, in which work is organized very differently and no longer forms the center of our identity and social organization. Helen Hester has been invited to speak on this topic; she is the author of Xenofeminism (Polity, 2018), After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (with Nick Srnicek, Verso, 2023), and Post-Work: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How We Get There (with Will Stronge, Bloomsbury, 2025).

Following a keynote address, she will discuss with artists Anajara Amarante and Olivia Hyunsin Kim what visions for artistic practice might look like in a post-work society.

On June 25, philosopher and author Amelia Horgan and sociologist and author Nicole Mayer-Ahuja will speak in a keynote conversation about the realities of our current working worlds under capitalism, about contemporary class society and the divisions that wage labor entails—and about the potential of resistant idleness and sometimes unexpected alliances.

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