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After decades of debates on shareholder and stakeholder capitalism, democratic and state capitalism, post-industrial and knowledge capitalism, there is a new show in town: woke capitalism. Coined in 2018, the concept refers to a conscious strategy employed by companies to align their brand image, hiring policies and corporate strategies with progressive causes (Douthat, 2018).

This is a dialogue with Antonella Corsani on theses contained in her book "Chemins de la liberté: Le travail entre hétéronomie et autonomie"[1] (trans. Paths to freedom: work between heteronomy and autonomy), which was published in October 2020.

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Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. In her research, she combines psychoanalytic and social theories to address the temporal, ethical and affective dimensions of care. In this interview, Prof. Baraitser helps us think through the temporal politics of COVID-19 and the ways in which pandemic conditions transform the affective dimensions of care work in Europe and US-America.

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This is an edited transcript of a face-to-face interview that took place in London on 21^st of January 2015.

Stephen Dunne (hereafter SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work?

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