Episode #16: Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Marcel Duchamp and the Refusal of Work.” We explore themes of conformity, work, resistance, lazy action, and whether or not Duchamp was right that “language was a mistake.”

Shout out to Maxime Lenormand for production assistance!

Many show notes!

Many thanks to Alex for sending these references: