Unworking Beat-Literatur Bachelard and the poetics of

Bachelard and the poetics of reverie

Mix & Stir explores new outlooks on contemporary art from global perspectives

und es immer irgendjemanden gab

Daniel Falb (*1977)

For comfort

Unworking Beat-Literatur Bachelard and the poetics ofDsuvrement, variously translated as unworking or inoperativity is a notion that haunts contemporary political theory and practice. Unworking overturns the typical valuation of work and action and opens an avenue to think radical passivity and inactivity as aesthetic and political practices that question the modernist mantra of purposeful production and ceaseless activity. At its most basic, unworking is the critique of work in all its variations: Not