Working promesses

The promises of work. A vast programme that has been taken over by a handful of ill-omened individuals whose plan consists of having us believe that to make a living we have to sacrifice our lives. Rimbaud, in his attempt at "redemption" through work concluded at the end of his journey: "the most probable .. is that one will live and die quite differently from what one would have wished, without hope of any sort of compensation". Italian poet Cesare Pavese, a man of the land, gave one of his works a blunt title: "Hard labour"...