There was a time when others bagged your groceries, planned your trips and pumped your gas, but now they're just another part of our daily routines. Craig Lambert says these are a few examples of the "shadow work" we've unwittingly taken on in service of companies and other organizations. He warns that it's chipping away at our leisure time, and turning us all into middle class serfs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson chats with Jim Fleming about his recent visit to Cuba. Steve was part of a delegation sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Institute of World Affairs.
Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff takes us on a tour through the virtual world of Second Life.
Zorba Paster is a practicing Buddhist and one of the Dalai Lama's personal physicians. He talks with Anne Strianchamps about medicine and compassion.
In this UNEDITED interview, Douglas Rushkoff talks with Steve Paulson about his book, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.”
Studs Terkel tells Steve Paulson why his friend Nelson Algren is one of America's great literary secrets. Among Terkel's latest books is "Hope Dies Last."
Sarah Churchwell tells Steve Paulson that Marilyn Monroe was an ambitious, complex woman not simply the victim of the Hollywood star machine.
Scott Topper reads from the meditation journal he kept after learning a simple meditation from Buddhist monk George Churinoff.
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