the social philosopher robert kurz describes the total restructuring of human work into energy for the economy of modern times as »self combusting«. the linkage of money as an abstractum with work ingeneral is detached from the conditions of social life: a combusting machine, that reduces all that is alive into dead and leaves behind only a simulation of that which is alive. we cannot rid ourselves of this work, not without getting rid of the money as well! put in another way, separation of work and money, or mildly stated: the insistence for a basic financing of livelihood, is an emancipation of the possible to exist as a antagonizing element within the matrix of the communication-economy.

subversive strategies: work productiv in a leisurely manner and new forms of sociability

in the outline (grundrisse) from marx we find the topic of general knowledge of a society, the »général intellect«. andré gorz adds »in the times of the internet, the cybernetic and networked computer information we clearly see that work-time no longer is a unit to measure work, no longer the measure of produced riches, because the foundation of it is basically only the continuation of material into the immaterial, intellectual work, the reflection, the understanding and trading of information, the spreading of knowledge, shortly said, the général intellect. (…) thus man must claim places to live, to get active and to be able to exchange with one another, where people can be sociable and also produce immaterial as well material riches.« 12