Work, unlike mere labour, invents new tools and prescribes new practices, which generate new usages, that is, ways of life in the sense of habits, customs and cultures (these usages are cultivated, they do not merely involve instructions or ‘user manuals’), thus constructing new configurations of meaning for human and ecosystemic interactions. Hence work is something other than probabilistic alphanumeric combinatorics in a set of predetermined possibilities (computerized data processing). This is why a reinvention of work (and with it of the economy, both psychic and political) is necessary at all levels of society, if we are to confront the current crisis and strive to overcome it.

— Bifurcate by Bernard Stiegler, Daniel Ross, The Internation Collective (Page 59)