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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how Irish elite schools negotiate change and maintain their legitimacy in times of economic turmoil and rising social inequality, arguing that they have not bowed before the demands of democratisation or economic globalisation.
Abstract: This paper examines how Irish elite schools negotiate change and maintain their legitimacy in times of economic turmoil and rising social inequality. The paper argues that they have not bowed before the demands of democratisation or economic globalisation. Instead they continue to maintain a high level of social closure and control diversity rather than adapt to it. Moral character acts as a principle of distinction and legitimation as these schools pose as the moral vanguards of the nation, in a national context where the economic crisis is commonly blamed on ‘greed’ and moral corruption. Their discourse is based on the defence of a certain social and moral order, somehow at odds with the dominant neoliberal ideology, but consistent with a static view of society and an aristocratic conception of leadership, which their students internalise.
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25 Aug 2013
TL;DR: The "communism of capital" as mentioned in this paper is a turn of phrase, this seeming paradox, which has been interpreted as a negative connotation with regards to the state of the world today, and it has no relationship with the concept and reality of what we understand to be communism.
Abstract: The 'communism of capital' - what could this awkward turn of phrase, this seeming paradox, mean? What might it signify with regards to the state of the world today? Does it have any relationship with the concept and reality of what we understand to be communism, and to what extent does it relate to the ways in which communist ideas, language and forms of organization are used presently? We can begin exploring the significance of the phrase by identifying some of the many conspicuous contexts in which elements of communism and capital meet today.
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This paper explored the geographies of taewa circulation, a marginal economy, and highlighted negogiated and transformative articulations between diverse economies that demonstrate how economy is practised and economies are maintained, expanded, and reconstituted.
Abstract: The articulation of diverse M??ori economies with other economies in processes of economy-making is relatively unexplored, but provides an intellectual space to rethink the constitutive elements of economy-making (economisation) and the possibilities and challenges of putting new material and relations into diverse economic circulations. The emergent discourse of the post-Treaty Settlement Taniwha Economy, in New Zealand seeks to mobilise M??ori resources into capitalisation processes and unlock economy in terms of capitalocentric economic imaginaries. However, little attention has been paid to how more diverse M??ori economy-making projects that emphasise cultural commitments might be encouraged to produce wider possibilities and articulate creatively with capitalist economies and state development projects. This thesis explores the geographies of taewa circulation, a marginal economy. It focuses specifically on how economic circulations of taewa are constructed, expanded and transformed through diverse and co-constitutive sets of actors, ideas, relationships, objects and politics. The thesis highlights negogiated and transformative articulations between diverse economies that demonstrate how economy is practised and economies are maintained, expanded, and reconstituted. Taewa economy is explored through a conceptual apparatus that highlights economy-making. Caliskan and Callon???s idea of economisation is brought into a productive dialogue with other concepts that see economy as more-than markets and more-than-capitalist, and which attend to the practices, diversity, situatedness, non-humaness and contestedness of economy-making. The research explores economy-making by following my own journeys through taewa economy and its defining circulations and moments of meaning making. It focuses in particular on three sets of encounters with economy-making agents and agencements in which they act: T??huri Whenua, a M??ori vegetable collective; Aunty???s Garden, a M??ori-State collective market-making experiment to get things moving in and between economies; and Potato Psyllids, pests that are currently attacking taewa across New Zealand, and winning. The thesis identifies four key findings: taewa economies are vibrant, vital, exciting and rich with human, cultural and economic possibility; the articulation of ideas, objects and investment across economies creates possibilities for expanding diverse M??ori economies; who and what articulates is important in shaping these possibilities and their transformative potential; and the non-human is a significant, unpredictable and largely unknown agency of economy-making in agricultural economies. M??ori and capitalist economy and human and non-human worlds are entangled, and working with these entanglements to foster better worlds requires imaginative and experimental interventions. Each of my encounters demonstrates an articulation between diverse and capitalist economies as actors move between them, things circulate around them, practices bind them together, and meanings become…
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...They attend to the relationship(s) between ‘person-states and thing-states’ as an approach to understand how a state of matter is constituted (Boltanski & Thévenot 1991:2006; see also, Boltanski & Chiapello 2005; Thévenot 2001, 2006, 2009)....
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TL;DR: Lukacs's theory of reification, explained in his 1923 work, History and Class Consciousness, is often interpreted as a theory of ideology, but it is also a theory for social practice and a work of social ontology as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Lukacs's theory of reification, explained in his 1923 work, History and Class Consciousness, is often interpreted as a theory of ideology, but it is also a theory of social practice and a work of social ontology. Reification and dereification describe different types of social practice: individual technical practices aimed at adaptation, survival, and success, and collective transformative practices with the potential for establishing a solidary socialist society. Although many aspects of Lukacs's early work are no longer applicable, this distinction is relevant to struggles around technology today, such as environmental struggles or struggles over medical practices.
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...There is a recent influential treatment of this theme by Boltanski and Chiapello (2005). 9....
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TL;DR: This article argued that there is still a role for discourse research today, some 30 years after Michel Foucault's death, and pointed out that "the end of critique as et al. is not the end of discourse research."
Abstract: Is there still a role for discourse research today, some 30 years after Michel Foucault’s death? A decade ago, French actor-network theorist Bruno Latour famously declared the end of critique as et...
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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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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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