In Passionate Work, Hong argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers. Examining historical managerial texts and ideology, career guides, social scientific work on unemployment, networking advice, software protocol, and office furniture, Hong shows how these are sites where discourses of passion are embedded, used to sustain and discipline bodies for work. The book draws attention to how the demand to be “passionate about work” is naturalized and internalized, calling attention to the ways that passion serves to obscure inequalities.
Articles by Kuansong Victor Zhuang
Kuansong Victor Zhuang is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and an International Postdoctoral Scholar at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. He was a Chevening scholar in 2013–14, and a 2022–23 Princeton University Fung Global Fellow. His research lies at the intersections of communications, media, cultural studies, and disability studies, especially as they pertain to inclusion and the workings of technology. He hopes to use his research to contribute to current debates about how inclusion happens both in Singapore and around the world.