Labor of Fire : The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture

In Labor of Fire, Bruno Gulli offers a timely and much needed re-examination of the concept of labor. Distinguishing between "e;productive labor"e; (working for money or subsistence) and "e;living labor"e; (working for artistic creation), Gulli convincingly argues for a definition of work that recognizes the importance of artistic and social creativity to our definition of labor and the self.Gull lays the groundwork for his book by offering a critique of productive labor, and then maps out his productive/living labor distinction in detail, reviewing the work of Marx and others.