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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.

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Systems, contexts, relations: an alternative genealogy of conceptual art.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the importance of a systems genealogy of conceptual art, which is a primary determinant of the conceptual genealogy in contemporary art. And they also argue that the contemporary significance of contemporary conceptual art can best be understood in light of its systematic mode.
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Faith-Based Initiatives and Pastoral Power

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical analysis of the faith-based and community initiative (FBI) is presented, and the authors argue that these relations of care can be interpreted as a departure from or at least a partial transformation of neoliberalism that produces not only new subjectivities but also novel forms of governing that combine the activating rhetoric of the neoliberalism with religious beliefs.
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The Aesthetics of Work-Readiness: Aesthetic Judgements and Pedagogies for Conditional Welfare and Post-Fordist Labour Markets:

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative and ethnographic study of aesthetic evaluation practices in Dutch welfare offices is presented, which is best conceptualized as a continuous, everyday, backstage labour for labour: a daily calibration for work contexts in flux.

Pro Bono? On philanthrocapitalism as ideological answer to inequality

Mikkel Thorup
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how philanthropy may serve to justify extreme inequality and explore four expressions of philanthropy as ideology: consumer philanthropy, in which we are asked to consume with good conscience, corporate philanthropy and billionaire philanthropy.
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A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia

TL;DR: In this paper, a translation of the poem "The Pleasures of Philosophy" is presented, with a discussion of concrete rules and abstract machines in the context of art and philosophy.
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

Paolo Leon
TL;DR: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray as discussed by the authors, and a good viewpoint to take bearings anew lies in comparing the post-Great Depression institutions with those emerging from Thatcher and Reagan's economic policies: deregulation, exogenous vs. endoge- nous money, shadow banking vs. Volcker's Rule.
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The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord
TL;DR: The Society of the Spectacle as mentioned in this paper is one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s, and it has been widely used in the literature since.
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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

TL;DR: Relevance Lost as mentioned in this paper is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today's environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers.