This article is divided into three parts. In the first one it is argued that Roland Barthes' distinction between work and text generates non-objects. In the second, this mode of being is connected to the current proliferation of flows, the most advanced model of social productivity. Finally, the paper proposes a reelaboration of the concept of work as a paleonomy according to which form and the interruption of fluxes determine each other.
Text; work; Roland Barthes; flows