scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Book

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.
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2020-Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze cases through the concept of "pragmatic registers" and show how residents, developers and civil servants can bend citizen participation and its material arrangements from workshops and public meetings to contracts and policy documents.

18 citations


Cites background or methods from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"

  • ...Actors who invoke the entrepreneurial logic often pursue their aims through instruments such as subcontracting, flexible specialization and out-sourcing (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005)....

    [...]

  • ...Our analysis builds on the idea of pragmatic registers as developed by Thévenot, Moody, and Lafaye (2000), Boltanski and Chiapello (2005), and Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) (see Table 1)....

    [...]

  • ...Following Boltanski and Chiapello (2005), we call this tendency the “entrepreneurial logic”....

    [...]

  • ...Citizen participation processes, we argue, reward “entrepreneurial” behavior and citizens who are active, enthusiastic, flexible, communicative and committed to finding innovative solutions to society's problems (cf. Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005)....

    [...]

  • ...Innovativeness is the measuring stick to determine the worth of other actors, objects and actions (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005)....

    [...]

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The Tarot School of Manhattan as mentioned in this paper offers a three-hour session that typically consists of Warren's impromptu but passionate lectures on a tarot card or set of cards as well as a full hour of tarot-reading practice among the students.
Abstract: I normally meet Warren on Monday nights, on the seventeenth floor of a nondescript office building in midtown Manhattan, where he and his wife, Rose, teach tarot classes for anywhere between three and ten students every week. Classes cost thirty dollars for a three-hour session that typically consists of Warren's impromptu but passionate lectures on a tarot card or set of cards as well as a full hour of tarot-reading practice among the students. For the handful of regulars who attend the classes, the school is their community, what some call their therapy, as well as site of pleasure and authority. It is a place where for a few hours, as seasoned tarot students and readers, they are, as Warren likes to say, "masters of their own ships," capable of guiding the discussion or giving pointers to a newcomer. For other students who come and go, the school is a break from the workaday world - it's a place where tarot cards, psychic ability, and magical practice are uninhibitedly discussed as meaningful sites of personal power. Given the school's warm community, it's easy to see why Warren and Rose drive in each from week from Queens, rain or shine, and on most holidays. Creating this space has been their labor of love, and, socially, it rewards them with a revolving cast of friends, students, and interlocutors who share an interest in learning more about a deck of cards that has existed since the fifteenth century and that evolved into a text that now counts astrology, neoPlatonism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, ceremonial magic, Goddess worship, Wicca, and neopaganism, as well as dash of contemporary quantum theory and geometry, as its bibliography.1Still, for Warren and Rose, the Tarot School is their sole source of income, and over the course of the past year, the general economic downturn in the city has started to affect their business. Tonight, when I see Warren, the joy of class is decidedly missing. Sitting on the couch in their apartment cluttered with books, tarot decks, and tchotchkes, Warren and I are talking about the future. "Everything decays, Karen," he tells me in his characteristic slow and intentional speech. "Everything falls away. It is the nature of things. We are in a period of decay like all things it [the school] too will pass away. My struggle is try to find the energy to get up in the morning every day and keep on going .... You know, when the Titanic is sinking you have two choices: you can sink or you can get in the rowboat. The only problem is when you start rowing, you're out there on your own."I know that there is considerable metaphysical study behind his words, and I realize Warren is speaking two languages at once. On the one hand, he is speaking the language of tarot and its fourfold system of elements, in which the element of Earth (or matter) represents the world of earthly, human, and material concerns.2 This element, which is associated with the suit of pentacles in the tarot deck, has a natural or essential tendency toward inertia, stillness, and decay. While such a toward-death ontology may sound morbid, even a nascent tarot student will suggest that it points toward a larger cosmic balance, or a fourfold dance of elemental particles, with each element moving in accord with its nature and tendencies. In tarot, to say that all is in decline is also to suggest that other elements are at work and that transformation and rebirth will follow. However, Warren is also speaking a more ordinary language of financial crisis, which looms as a more "real" or immediate reality. Despite a metaphysics that can make room for the existence of multiple elemental worlds, Warren is not inured against the tendencies of global capital. On the contrary, he and his wife are skilled readers of the ebbs and flows of the city's money, as they consider themselves members of the service economy, and their business depends on their intuitive ability to glean the excess. When times are tight for others, there is less to glean, and bills accrue. …

18 citations


Cites background from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"

  • ...…2007), which emerged as post-Fordist, postindustrial capital moved a “new economy” of information, global networks, ever increasingly flexible work arrangements and investment in “immaterial” forms labor (Boltanski and Chiapello 2007; Harvey 1991, 2007; Sennett 2000, 2007; Lazzarato 1996)....

    [...]

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation and asks if populist anti-elite rhetoric has a causal influence on anger and if this influence differs across socio-economic groups.
Abstract: Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks if populist anti-elite rhetoric has a causal influence on anger and if this influence differs across socio-economic groups. The theoretical expectation is that anti-elite rhetoric allows people to externalize responsibility for an unfavorable financial situation and thereby to turn negative self-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The empirical analysis yields three main insights. First, negative emotional reactions to respondents' personal finances (and anger in particular) are surprisingly widespread in all three countries. Second, there is a pronounced socio-economic gradient in the distribution of anger and other negative emotions. Third, and most importantly, randomly exposing participants to populist anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but less so in the United States. This suggests a causal role of anti-elite rhetoric in stirring "pocketbook anger." This is true in particular in the middle classes. The notion that populist rhetoric reduces negative self-conscious emotions, such as shame, is not supported by the data.

18 citations


Cites background from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"

  • ...Discourses based on this ideology individualize and moralize economic failure, while they idealize economic success (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005; Lamont, 2019; Sennett, 2006)....

    [...]

DissertationDOI
01 Jan 2017

18 citations


Cites background from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"

  • ...Consumers were savvy enough to critique the inauthenticity of mainstream green marketing campaigns as early as the 1990s (Boltanski & Chiapello 2005, 449), and my informants expressed distain for “greenwashing” and eco-consumerism....

    [...]

  • ...In fact, most of the households I spoke with over the course of this research expressed a great deal of skepticism about “green consumerism” and sustainability marketing (Micheletti 2003; Doane 2010; Boltanski & Chiapello 2005, 449)....

    [...]

Posted Content
TL;DR: In this article, affect is explored in relation to the governance of irregular migrants and asylum seekers that turn such vulnerable individuals into a feared category, and the motif of the life boat is an example of a diversion from the anxieties and fears in everyday life; a metaphor for scarcity and a battle for survival.
Abstract: Affect is explored in relation to the governance of irregular migrants and asylum seekers that turn such vulnerable individuals into a feared category How are emotions as practices developed, fostered and enacted? The examples developed in the article focus on ‘illegal maritime arrivals’ (asylum seekers arriving by boat) and the emotionally charged response to them in Australia The article argues that the state, far from embodying a detached and neutral arbiter utilising various steering mechanisms of care and due process, instead governs through fear and anxiety generated in relation to outsiders The state draws on, and indeed creates, dispositions and feelings, generating a distinct politics of affect The motif of the lifeboat is an example of a diversion from the anxieties and fears in everyday life; a metaphor for scarcity and a battle for survival The asylum seeker as ‘illegal maritime arrival’ (boat person) is the exemplar of such a lifeboat politics in the Australian case

18 citations

References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
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

14,735 citations

Posted Content
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.

3,447 citations

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.

3,391 citations

Book
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.

3,308 citations