4.4.6. Facebook and Play Labour
Work stands in a dialectical relation with play: in play, humans have the freedom to do with the objects of play whatever one wants to do: ‘In a single toss of a ball, the player achieves an infinitely greater triumph of human freedom over the objective world than in the most massive accomplishment of technical labor’ (Marcuse 1933, 128). Play has ‘no duration or permanence. It happens essentially in “intervals”, “between” the times of other doings that continually dominate human Dasein’ (Marcuse 1933, 128). In societies, where work is toil, play would be dialectically related to work in such a way that it is an escape from it:
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