The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic -colonies- and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California and from asylums for the chronically insane (preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Germany and the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City). Painful facts emerge about -sterilization mills- in California, where thousands of individuals became subject to compulsory procedures (policies that shaped eugenics practice in the Third...
The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic -colonies- and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that d...