{"id":30889,"date":"2021-07-19T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=30889"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:16:43","slug":"oisivete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/oisivete\/","title":{"rendered":"Oisivet\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[353,795],"project_type":[743],"class_list":["post-30889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-online-publications","project-untranslatable","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Labor is everywhere!\r\n\r\nIn post-industrialized societies, a significant part of labor is immaterial, digital, fluid, limited in time, performance-oriented, achievable everywhere.\r\n\r\nWe \u2013 the workforce \u2013are adaptable, flexible, physically and mentally mobile, always reachable, smoothly managed. We are activable human capital.\r\n\r\nBesides, we are always soliciting, applying. LinkedIn is our FB. FB is our LinkedIn.We are brands, entrepreneurs of ourselves, assessing the cost\/benefit, mentally if not already legally independent entrepreneurs. We kept the bill after having had a drink with you. You enjoyed our company.\r\n\r\nBusiness is everywhere!\r\n\r\nWe are lying teleworkers stuck in our soft and ultraconnected prisons.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">1<\/sup> The coronavirus has finished off Fordism. Our laptops optimize the extraction of our work.\r\n\r\nWe are said to be detached, disloyal, opportunistic, and cynical. We are curious, adaptable, disobedient. Stressed and depressed.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">2<\/sup> We forgot how to unplug.\r\n\r\n\u2026\r\n\r\nIn recent years, some authors have called for laziness as a resistance mechanism.\r\n\r\nBut \u00bblaziness\u00ab is too dubious. It does counterintelligence, always on the side, trying to make you feel guilty.\r\n\r\n\u00bbLeisure\u00ab is acquainted with entertainment.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIdleness,\u00ab like the German <em>Mu\u0308\u00dfiggang<\/em>, is better.\r\n\r\nBut the French <em>oisivet\u00e9<\/em> has the virtue of being rooted in the Latin word <em>otium<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThrough Mu\u0308\u00dfiggang, Nietzsche only praised the <em>otium<\/em>.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">3<\/sup>\r\n\r\nThe Greeks and early Romans clearly distinguished <em>otium<\/em> and <em>negotium<\/em>. The latter being the negation of the first one (nec otium). Otium comes directly from the Greek <em>skh\u00f4l\u00e8<\/em>, which covers free time, inaction, studious leisure, the quest of beauty, sense, values, truth. It enables thoughts, contemplation, meditation, study, and speculation. It is autonomous, detached from any personal interests, and deployed without any external justification. It is a side of self-care, the <em>viva contemplativa. <\/em>The way to reach art, politics (as the quest of general interest), philosophy. The ontological basis of individual emancipation.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">4<\/sup>\r\n\r\nWith the rise of the Roman empire, the otium has been progressively locked in the private sphere. In doing business (negotium), Greeks and early Romans were literally negating the otium (nec otium).\r\n\r\nLater, in the Christian era, time was counted by God and it was therefore forbidden to waste it. The so-called principle of non-oisivet\u00e9.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">5<\/sup> The pastoral power directed the consciences. Self-revelation \u2013 which is at the core of the oisivet\u00e9 \u2013 became self-denial.\r\n\r\nThe Classical age (the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) posed the principle of a theoretically ever-growing use of time\/workforce. The rise of capitalism. Utilitarianism. Disciplines. Efficiency. This is still ongoing.\r\n\r\nSo, the fact that the French word oisivet\u00e9 comes from and therefore envelops the otium has to be praised. It is better equipped this way than \u00bblaziness,\u00ab \u00bbleisure,\u00ab or even \u00bbidleness\u00ab to challenge the world trade of things and its corollary, the ever-growing labor market.\r\n\r\nOisivet\u00e9 is treated by French-speaking people with distance but without disdain. Neither ideologues nor human resource management thinkers like it. The concept has not aged, but does not seem to fit in our time.\r\n\r\nAre <em>oisifs<\/em> or <em>oisives<\/em> the ones who do not work, temporarily or durably, who do not have any kind of business or pseudo<sup class=\"is-footnote\">6<\/sup> activity? They are not lazy, no Bartleby. They are not employed \u2013 they are birds.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">7<\/sup>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">That essential peace in the depths of our being, that priceless absence in which the most delicate elements of life are refreshed and comforted, while the inner creature is in some way cleansed of past and future, of present awareness, of obligations pending and expectations lying in wait \u2026 No cares, no tomorrow, no inner pressure, but a kind of repose in absence, a beneficent emptiness that brings the mind back to its true freedom. Here it is concerned only with itself. Freed from its obligations toward practical knowledge, and unburdened of any care for things to come, it creates forms as pure as crystal.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">8<\/sup><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">Paul Val\u00e9ry, <em>The outlook for intelligence<\/em><\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Fu\u00dfnoten","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"See Paul Preciado: \u00bbBiosurveillance: sortir de la prison molle de nos int\u00e9rieurs,\u00ab in: <em>Mediapart<\/em>, April 12, 2020."},{"footnote":"See Paolo Virno: <em>A Grammar of the Multitude<\/em>, Cambridge, MA 2004."},{"footnote":"See Friedrich Nietzsche: <em>The Gay Science<\/em>, Cambridge 2001. no. 329."},{"footnote":"See Jean Miguel Pire: <em>Otium<\/em>, Arles 2020."},{"footnote":"See Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir, Paris 1995."},{"footnote":"\u00bbPeople intervene all the time, \u203ado something\u2039; academics participate in meaningless debates and so on.\u00ab Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: <em>Violence: Six Sideways Reflections<\/em>, London 2009, p.183."},{"footnote":"As oisivet\u00e9 is spread into sounds, French-speaking people first hear <em>oiseau<\/em>, which means bird in French. Oiseau and oisivet\u00e9 are the only two common French words beginning with \u00bbois-\u00ab and the first one is much more used than the second, so that phonologically the bird cannot be clearly separated from oisivet\u00e9."},{"footnote":"See Paul Val\u00e9ry: <em>The Outlook for Intelligence<\/em>, trans. Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews, Princeton 1989."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"p1 is-size-6\"><strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Toussaint<\/strong> graduated from Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, with degrees in law (2007) and performance studies (2012). He works as a lawyer and legal researcher in German and Belgian law, and is also a certified translator. 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