Never Work Talks: Amelia Horgan, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

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Over the course of two days, the festival’s artistic program will be accompanied by a series of lec­tures and discussions.

We begin on June 24 with a look at a possible future and the question of what a “post-work” society might look like—a world in which work is organized very differently and no longer forms the center of our identity and social organization. 

On June 25, philosopher and author of Lost in Work (2021) Amelia Horgan and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja—sociologist and author of, among other works, Power at Work: A Global Perspective on Control and Resistance (de Gruyter, 2021, co-edited with Marcel van der Linden) and Klassengesellschaft akut: Warum Lohnarbeit spaltet – und wie es anders gehen kann (C.H. Beck, 2025) — will engage in a keynote conversation about the realities of our current world of work under capitalism, contemporary class society and the divisions that wage labor creates, as well as the potential of “resistant idleness” and sometimes unexpected alliances.

With: Amelia Horgan, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

A production by Sophiensæle. Never Work—International Performance Festival is a festival by Sophiensæle, supported by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Sophiensæle is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

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• Date Thursday, 25/June/2026 19:00
• Venue Sophiensaele - Kantine
• Address Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
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