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About The Idler
The Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
From the Archives
"The
answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live.
But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still
just live." Damien Hirst: Idler 10
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