Sleek #22 Summer 2009 work|play
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»The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play«, the British universal historian Arnold Toynbee (1989-1975) once said, pleading for people to have more fun in their work. But what does this mean for someone who has so much fun working that others consider it frivolity? The line between work and play may be blurred but mustn’t become completely invisible. Even the most fun-oriented freelancers in the creative fields have to admit that their work wouldn’t be acknowledged as such without the occasional moaning about too big a workload or too tight deadlines. Work must never look like play. Because even amongst those who produce immaterial values rather than goods, there still are those who believe that no »real« work is involved in a product that has no utility – a piece of art, for example. [...]