Never Work Talks: Amelia Horgan, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Never Work Talks: Amelia Horgan, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
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.
Amelia Horgan is a writer and editor from London. She is the author of Lost in Work (2021), which has since been translated into six languages. She recently finished a PhD, also about work, in philosophy, at the University of Essex. Before that, she completed an MA in the history of ideas at the University of London and a BA in history at the University of Cambridge. She has written for various publications, including The Guardian, Vice, Jacobin and Parapraxis. Horgan is the Principal Editor at the think tank, Common Wealth, where she also leads a project on the futures of socialism.
Nicole Mayer-Ahuja is Professor of the Sociology of Work, Organizations, and the Economy at the University of Göttingen. Her research and teaching focus on changes in the world of work, often from a historical and transnational perspective. Her recent publications include: Verkannte Leistungsträger*innen: Berichte aus der Klassengesellschaft (Suhrkamp, 2021, co-edited with Oliver Nachtwey); 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).
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Nicole Mayer-Ahuja