"It differs from absenteeism in that the worker is officially on the job. La perruque may be as simple a matter as a secretary's writing a love letter on 'company time' or as complex as a cabinetmaker's 'borrowing' a lathe to make a piece of furniture for his living room...[it is a use of time that is] free, creative, and precisely not directed toward profit." (25)
What would Margaret Morse or David Golumbia have to say about the way la perruque exists in the context of today's densely overlapping social media forms? Is there any time that isn't 'company time,' any place truly separable from the space of work and consumption?
