JSTOR Journey: Applied Methods?

Hi there! I'm not done with my response to the last article I read, but I thought that it would be fun to apply some of the methodologies it mentioned. So, I wrote an analysis of a cultural feature of society in light of working conditions in the vain of E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class. If you've read Jojo's blog posts, she discusses a study group vc we're both in, and one of my friends in that vc mentioned they listened to nightcore, which is basically music that is sped up for the purpose of dancing. I'm not a big fan of nightcore, so I decided to critique it from the perspective of 21st-century notions of work and productivity:

  "The Political Economy of Nightcore"

Nightcore is an attempt to condense the experience and power of music into a smaller and more easily consumable timeframe, particularly for the purpose of dancing. In some respects, it is a merely a reflection of the current economic base of modern society. Under the current economic system, the exchange of labor, in the form of socially necessary labor time, must be sold by those without capital for a wage. With historical resistance aimed at limits on working hours such as the eight-hour day and forty-hour work week, it might seem that the modern-day working arrangement now acknowledges that our time has value, a statement in line with the philosophy of Swedish literary critic Martin Hagglund. However, the Italian philosopher Mario Tronti conversely argues that capital reacts to the action and organization of laborers. Under this reading, it appears to us that any respect modern society currently affords to labor-time originated merely from collective action. It also provides a theoretical basis for the actions that modern day business takes to maintain control over the worker's labor power in light of the movement to limit working hours. Business owners need to derive as much productive power from workers during the standard hours of work and even encourage them to exceed such customs. To increase the productive powers of business, the superstructure of neoliberalism, as described by philosopher Byung Chul Han in The Burnout Society, ditches the previous conception of work as something imposed by a disciplinary power with threats and markets the self-exploitation of one's productive capacities in service of capital as the attainment of higher and higher levels of freedom. With this voluntary self-exploitation during hours of labor, one's leisure time is compromised, but a similar logic of maximizing the value present in time is applied. Nightcore represents this "temporal maximization" of the aesthetic appeal of music.