Ergophobia (Noise Study for Dino Campana) Feat. Clemence Martel From the Greek ergo (work) and phobos (fear), ergophobia refers to an excessive and persistent fear of one’s own work and the daily tasks and commitments it entails. This piece draws on the words of the Italian poet Dino Campana (1885–1932), a troubled figure in Italian literature who emerged from a provincial bourgeois background and stood firmly against the common middle- class values that measured a man’s worth by his labor. Considered mentally ill, misunderstood, and spending much of his life in and out of psychiatric in...