The fifth book forthcoming from Duke University Press that we’ve indexed in the past five months, Renyi Hong’s Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life, is an illuminating critical study of the notion of “being passionate about work” and is now available for pre-order. In this fascinating and important text, Hong (assistant professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore) examines the affective project of instilling the notion of passion for one’s job as not only essential to doing good work but also a central component of living a “good life.” Covering topics including gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong argues that the very idea of having passion for one’s work “sustains a condition of cruel optimism in which passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism.” Please follow this link to find more information about this excellent title from the publisher’s website.