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The New Spirit of Capitalism
01 Jan 2005-
TL;DR: 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.
Abstract: 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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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: Prelude: The ‘Alternative Submission’ Format and its Applications p. 4 Declaration p. 5 Copyright p. 7 Acknowledgements p. 10
Abstract: p. 4 Declaration p. 5 Copyright p. 6 About the Author p. 7 Acknowledgements p. 8 Prelude: The ‘Alternative Submission’ Format p. 10
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the concept of heterotopia in the context of public space and show that the sidewalk is a liminal space for unwanted objects that are in transition between disposal and destruction or reappropriation.
Abstract: This article considers the concept of heterotopia in the context of public space. Based on the observations and interviews with 19 disposers and/or gleaners operating on bulky item collection days, it shows that the sidewalk is (1) a liminal space for unwanted objects that are in transition between disposal and destruction or reappropriation; (2) a regularly practiced space, the meaning of which is redefined by disposers (for depositing) and gleaners (for provisioning); (3) a place of illusion that mirrors the profusion of goods produced by the linear economy; and (4) a space of compensation for the pitfalls of the consumer society. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the new concept of parasite heterotopia, a term that refers to a space that is appropriated by a tactical use of a regulated place, which both reflects and contests a dominant ordering on its own territory. The article adds to previous literature on heterotopias and sustainability by questioning how this “time–space” is involved i...
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Cites background from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"
...(Joël) Third, social criticism condemns the relations of domination and exploitation of labor by capitalism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005)....
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...We conclude that the concept of parasite heterotopia can help reveal how space is involved in the dialectics of capitalism and criticism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005)....
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...’ (Amandine) Second, the artistic criticism condemns the disenchantment of the world and the alienation of consumer society and, conversely, values creativity, autonomy, and authenticity (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005)....
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...(Amandine) Second, the artistic criticism condemns the disenchantment of the world and the alienation of consumer society and, conversely, values creativity, autonomy, and authenticity (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on worker autonomy and monitoring using the second wave of the German Linked Personnel Panel, a linked employer-employee data set.
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on worker autonomy and monitoring using the second wave of the German Linked Personnel Panel, a linked employer-employee data set. From a theoretical point of view, the impact of ICT on workplace organization is ambigu- ous. On the one hand, the fast diffusion of ICT among employees makes it possible to monitor professional activities, leading to greater centralization. On the other hand, ICT enable employees to work more autonomously, so that workplace organization becomes more decentralized. Based on ordinary least squares and instrumental variable estimates, we find that ICT promotes both centralization and decentralization tendencies. Furthermore, managerial employees are more affected by ICT-induced monitoring and autonomy than their non-managerial counterparts. Finally, the effect of digital ICT on employee autonomy is more pronounced than the corresponding effect on employee monitoring. Again, this does especially hold for managerial employees. All in all, our results support the view that unlike prior technological revolutions digitalization primarily affects the employment prospects and working conditions of employees at medium and higher hierarchical levels.
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25 Jun 2015
TL;DR: According to the quote, scale can contribute to efficiency, affordability, integration, customer satisfaction and quality, which is exemplary for current thinking about scale in Dutch healthcare.
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“The Cabinet will promote small-scale healthcare institutions. An optimal scale of
healthcare institutions will lead to more efficiency, lower costs, more integrated care,
higher customer satisfaction and better care. The Cabinet will ensure the optimisation
of the scale of healthcare institutions. The rise of healthcare giants will be halted.”
(VVD-CDA Coalition Agreement 2010: 36)
This quote comes from the Coalition Agreement of the Liberal (VVD) and
Christian-Democratic (CDA) cabinet (‘Rutte I’) that took office in the Netherlands
in 2010. In the quote, the cabinet expresses several assumptions about
scale. “Small-scale healthcare institutions” are preferred over “healthcare giants”
because the former have an “optimal scale”. Moreover, this optimal scale results in
“more efficiency, lower costs, more integrated care, higher customer satisfaction
and better care”. These assumptions are exemplary for current thinking about
scale in Dutch healthcare. In particular, the quote illustrates that a lot is expected
of scale. According to the quote, scale can contribute to efficiency, affordability,
integration, customer satisfaction and quality. As the following extracts from
Dutch newspapers exemplify, this is a reflection of the public and political
debate about scale (see also Postma, Putters and Van de Bovenkamp 2012).
Especially the (positive) expectations of small-scale care are high: it is supposed
to be “beneficial to healthcare” (Boersma 2005) because it entails “flexibility and
a better working atmosphere” (Volkskrant 2001) and a “human, individual approach”
(Lubbers 2009). In contrast, large-scale healthcare is frequently typified
as “inhumane” (De Haan and Haagsma 1996) because it is based on a “production
mind set” (Noordhuis 2008) and is “bureaucratic” (Van Dijk 2009). But
actors also argue in favour of large-scale care because it ensures “better quality”
(Hoekman 2008) and against small-scale care due to “problems of discontinuity”
(Wammes 2009). The opinions that people express about scale are different, but
have one thing in common: the high expectations of what scale can accomplish
for the organization and provision of care.
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Book•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the debates on the proactive role of live performance audiences in the context of the Be SpectACTive! workshop in Barcelona, 2016, where the participants developed their vision of what participation means in culture, each in his/her field and disciplinary environment.
Abstract: This book gives an important place to the controversies surrounding the question of participation in the cultural and artistic fields. This debate gathers researchers who have developed through their work an original and documented point of view on the issue. Then, it brings together those who have been active in the Conference “The Proactive Role of Live Performance Audiences” (Barcelona, November 2016). The publication proposes a dynamic state of the considerations that accompany the Be SpectACTive! project (funded by the EU program Creative Europe). The book is structured in two parts. The first contains an introductory theoretical chapter by the two editors (Lluis Bonet and Emmanuel Negrier) followed by the contributions of researchers who develop their vision of what participation means in culture, each one in his/her field and disciplinary environment. Jean-Louis Fabiani analyzes participation in its historical context and shows the possible resulting sociological and political ambivalence. Franco Bianchini and Alice Borchi highlight the forms that participation policies in contemporary cities can take. Dafne Muntanyola-Saura focuses on ethics and aesthetics of participation in the field of visual arts. These three different contributions enrich our vision and open up a critical perspective. The second part of the book extends this perspective to seven main goals of participation in the cultural sector. Each theme was proposed to be discussed during specific workshops at the Barcelona conference on the proactive role of live performance audiences. We commissioned to the conductors of each session to write their own reflections on the issue. At the same time, the synthesis of the debates was made by a second group of experts. These are the titles of the seven workshop sessions and the names of the authors in order of appearance: "Artistic quality and audience empowerment" by Jaroslava Tomanova and Giada Calvano; "Risks and opportunities of active spectatorship from a management perspective" by Giuliana Ciancio and Ricardo Alvarez; "The interactive role of participatory creative residencies" by Felix Dupin-Meynard, Bruno Maccari and Rafael Valenzuela; "The challenges of artistic programming with active spectators" by Luca Ricci, Ricardo Alvarez and Janina Juarez Pinzon; "Prosumer Experiences in Performing Arts" by Luisella Carnelli, Jaume Colomer, Giada Calvano and Janina Juarez Pinzon; "The organizational challenge of audience development and engagement" by Alessandro Bollo, Bruno Maccari and Kinga Szemessy and, finally, "Real democratization: involving audiences with different cultural capital" by Arturo Rodriguez Morato and Rafael Valenzuela. In conclusion, Ben Walmsley, one of the very first thinkers about participation in the cultural sector, will provide his original contribution to this debate.
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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.
Abstract: Translator's Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgements Author's Note 1. Introduction: Rhizome 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? 3. 10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) 4. November 20th, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics 5. 587BC-AD70: On Several Regimes of Signs 6. November 28th, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 7. Year Zero: Faciality 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?" 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity 10. 1730: Becoming Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming Imperceptible... 11. 1837: Of the Refrain 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine 13. 7000BC: Apparatus of Capture 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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01 Jan 2012
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.
Abstract: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray. Part of the problem is due to Smith’s "veil of ignorance": individuals unknowingly pursue society’s interest and, as a result, have no clue as to the macroeconomic effects of their actions: witness the Keynes and Leontief multipliers, the concept of value added, fiat money, Engel’s law and technical progress, to name but a few of the macrofoundations of microeconomics. 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. Very simply, the banks, whose lending determined deposits after Roosevelt, and were a public service became private enterprises whose deposits determine lending. These underlay the great moderation preceding 2006, and the subsequent crash.
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Book•
01 Jan 1967
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.
Abstract: For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.
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01 Mar 1987
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.
Abstract: "Relevance Lost" 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. The book shows that modern corporations must work toward designing new management accounting systems that will assist managers more fully in their long-term planning. It is the winner of the American Accounting Association's Deloitte Haskins & Sells/Wildman Award Medal. It is also available in paperback: ISBN 0875842542.
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