Fake Work / Leigh Claire La Berge
There is something so absolutely profound about the experience of thinking about what it is one does during the course of a working day that all workers need to continue in whatever industry. This is another form of knowing what is capitalism? How does it operate? How does it work? And for whom?
Leigh Claire La Berge joins us to discuss her new book published today by Haymarket, Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
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Guest
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 and Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary. Her most recent book is Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke (Haymarket, 2025). Her writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, n+1, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.