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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
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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.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.read more
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Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets: Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda
TL;DR: Power and domination once occupied center stage in organizational sociology, but as the field developed, the concept of power was marginalized and its overall significance for the drama of organization life neglected.
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A crisis of leadership: Towards an anti-sovereign ethics of organisation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a Levinasian ethics of responsibility and proximity as the basis of an alternative, anti-sovereign, ethics of organisation, arguing that the most ethically debilitating crisis is the fact that we look to leadership to solve organisational ethical ills.
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Historical re-enacting and affective authority: performing the American Civil War
TL;DR: The authors examines the performative dimensions of American Civil War battle re-enacting and argues that the main political power of this reenactment rite is not social integration of the group or selective portrayal of history but providing participants with certain moods and motivations that result in subsequent activism.
The Biennial: A Post-Institution for Immaterial Labour
TL;DR: The art biennial often regards itself as a problematic hybrid monster as mentioned in this paper, and it is precisely this heterogeneous interest that makes the biennial suspect, which is why many artists, curators and critics continue to take part, cheerfully, full of ambition, but at times physically and mentally exhausted, in this amazing world.
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Reich in blackface: Oh Dem Watermelons and Radical Minstrelsy in the 1960s
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination of Reich's music for Robert Nelson's film Oh Dem Watermelons (1965), which was originally conceived as part of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's controversial production A Minstrel Show, or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel of the same year, is presented.
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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
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
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.