Eva Bujalka

Eva Bujalka teaches creative writing and cultural studies at Curtin University, where she completed a PhD in creative writing. She is a co-director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network and teaches at the School of Critical Arts. Eva has published fiction and essays in Meanjin and Cambridge: Popular Music, and has work forthcoming in Fast Capitalism. Most recently she has appeared on the ABC’s The Philosopher’s Zone.

Articles by Eva Bujalka:

1 April 202218 May 2022

Against efficiency

Eva Bujalka

While Taylor urged managers to control their workers to ‘get more’ out of them, productivity literature and productivity tech take this imperative and urge the individual to turn this control inwards: to self control, to self manage, to ‘get more’ out of themselves. In this way, the failure to thrive in competitive work environments, to fail to succeed or even to enjoy, becomes an individual failing, hinged on an inability to properly optimise oneself or one’s time.