The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Abolition of Work and Other Essays [Amazon, Internet Archive, Local Library] by Hermetic Library Fellow Bob Black.

Black Abolition of Work and Other Essays

I loaned my copy of this book (acquired circa 1988) to an acquaintance who never returned it–long enough ago that I hold out no hope for its eventual recovery. It is profoundly unsurprising that a book so incisively anti-authoritarian should refuse to behave like property. I only hope the fellow read it and sent it further along.

Consider also:

  1. Babel-17 / Empire Star
  2. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
  3. “A by-stander often sees more of the game than those that play …”
  4. The Cosmic Serpent
  5. “The initiate chooses to set foot on a new path; but the path itself was already there in some form – what is new is the fact that this particular initiate is now walking on it. Initiation is the beginning of something new, and it is the conservation and renewal of something already established.”