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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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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Palmer et al. as mentioned in this paper found that news subjects perceive the phenomenon of making the news as a broader saga that begins with their involvement in an event or issue, often only later deemed newsworthy by journalists, and extends to the repercussions of the coverage in their lives, including feedback they receive from others and effects on their digital reputations.
Abstract: In the Funhouse Mirror: How News Subjects Respond to Their Media Reflections Ruth A. Palmer Based on in-depth interviews with eighty-three people who were named in newspapers in the New York City-area and a southwestern city, this dissertation explores the phenomenon of being featured, quoted, or mentioned in a news story, from the subject’s point of view. Discussions of news subjects usually begin when the journalist comes on the scene and end with subjects’ assessments of accuracy in the articles in which they appear. But I find that news subjects perceive the phenomenon of “making the news” as a broader saga that begins with their involvement in an event or issue, often only later deemed newsworthy by journalists, and extends to the repercussions of the coverage in their lives, including feedback they receive from others and effects on their digital reputations. Subjects interpret their news coverage, including its accuracy, in light of the trigger events that brought them to journalists’ attention in the first place and the coverage’s ensuing effects. Individual chapters focus on subjects’ reasons for wanting or not wanting to speak to reporters; their interactions with reporters; their reactions to the news content in which they were named; and repercussions of news appearances. I conclude that the assumption that news subjects are all victims of the press is both reductive and, often, from the subject’s own point of view, inaccurate. While common wisdom suggests that people who seek news attention do so for petty or poorly considered reasons, I find that interviewees often did consider the pros and cons of speaking to the press before agreeing to do so. For most participants the attraction could be summarized as the opportunity to address or display themselves before a large audience, which they saw as rare and elusive, even in today’s web 2.0 world. At the same time, most subjects understood, at least in theory, the main risks involved: that they were giving up control over their stories to reporters, but would nonetheless bear the repercussions of having had their names in the news. But the majority concluded—even after seeing the, often imperfect, resulting articles—that the benefits outweighed the risks. Subjects were often pleased with their news appearances even despite inaccuracies in the content because they found that, unless they were portrayed extremely negatively, appearing in the news conferred status, which was often not just psychologically but materially beneficial. Those subjects who were left dissatisfied with their experiences appearing in the news only rarely felt misled or outright betrayed by journalists. It was far more common that subjects felt journalists were unacceptably aggressive or exploitative. Other subjects traced their discontent not to their interactions with journalists but to the content of the resulting news stories, whether because inaccuracies derailed their objectives for appearing in the news in the first place, or because the content had stigmatizing effects. This is the ugly obverse of status conferral: subjects who were portrayed as behavioral deviants—criminals for instance—found that not only was their status not enhanced by their news appearances, their social standing and professional prospects were badly damaged. I conclude that both the status and stigma conferred by the news media are magnified by the digital publication, circulation, and searchability of news articles, which can now continue to have profound effects on subjects’ lives far into the future.
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TL;DR: Humphrey as discussed by the authors examines the music and career of composer Tan Dun around the turn of the millennium, arguing that his market strategy combined performances of cultural particularity with appeals to old ideas about classical music's universalism, which was apparent in his music, which shared aesthetic qualities with both New Age and world music, and in his rhetoric, where he consistently claimed to operate beyond both generic and national boundaries.
Abstract: This contribution examines the music and career of composer Tan Dun around the turn of the millennium. I read Tan’s work against the backdrop of post-Cold War fantasies about impending ‘global harmony’ and the dissolution of borders, arguing that his market strategy combined performances of cultural particularity with appeals to old ideas about classical music’s universalism. This strategy was apparent in his music, which shares aesthetic qualities with both New Age and world music, and in his rhetoric, where he consistently claimed to operate beyond both generic and national boundaries. Focusing on three of Tan’s works, I argue that his market-friendly multiculturalism worked partly by reanimating the residual power of Kunstreligion, updating its musical religiosity for millennial audiences in search of spiritual meaning. During the last years of the twentieth century, new music culture in the United States and Western Europe increasingly included music by composers from outside those territories. Such music was often programmed or commissioned in ways that called attention to its roots outside ‘the West’, as it created useful marketing opportunities for concert presenters. In July 1996, for example, the Lincoln Center Festival presented a programme called ‘Tan Dun and New Generation East’, which featured the music of Tan, Toshio Hosokawa, and Somei Satoh, among others. The programme notes claimed that this ‘New Generation East’ was developing a tradition ‘without national boundaries’, drawing on its ‘Asian roots’ to produce music ‘infused with a mystical sensibility’. A few years later, in late summer 2000, the Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart presented four newly written settings of the Passion of Christ commissioned from a self-consciously multicultural group of composers – Tan Dun, Sofia Gubaidulina, Osvaldo Golijov, and Wolfgang Rihm – as a tribute to Bach. The terms of the commission, titled ‘Passion 2000’, called for each composer to select a canonic gospel and write a setting in his or her language of origin. That same year, in November, the Silk Road Ensemble, led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, made its debut in New York, launching a project that continues to be marketed as featuring ‘a global array of cultures’. 1 Mary Lou Humphrey, Programme notes, ‘Tan Dun and New Generation East’, Stagebill, Lincoln Center Festival, 27
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Dissertation•
04 Jul 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the Age of the Literal World Picture is described as a world picture consuming whole earth polke as stupid planetary dysphoria suicide from the edge of space Illustrations, and super-enthusiastically working together: Internet Memes and Free Time on 4chan.
Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------v Acknowledgements--------------------------------------------------------------------------vii List of Illustrations--------------------------------------------------------------------ix Introduction-----------------------------------------------------------------------------1 Chapter One The Age of the Literal World Picture-------------------------19 world picture consuming whole earth polke as stupid planetary dysphoria suicide from the edge of space Illustrations--------------------------------------------------------------------------------69 Chapter Two Super-Enthusiastically Working Together: Internet Memes and Free Time on 4chan--------------------------------------------------------------------------83 memeslol ideological post-state apparatus i hate u... coda, heads in freezers Illustrations-------------------------------------------------------------------------------141 Chapter Three Jpegs and the Horror of Digital Photography-----------153 lossy hierarchy of images horror Illustrations-------------------------------------------------------------------------------195 Chapter Four Dead Montage---------------------------------------------------209 post internet montage database aesthetics music that doesn’t work liquid mirror comedy Illustrations-------------------------------------------------------------------------------261 Epilogue Everything is Terrible------------------------------------------------275 Illustrations-------------------------------------------------------------------------------281 Bibliography---------------------------------------------------------------------------------285
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TL;DR: The impact of the economic crisis should act as an incentive to devise less vulnerable economic development models for Spanish cities as mentioned in this paper, however, the creative economy, one of the most interesting initiatives in this context, remains very limited, and microdata obtained from a sample of one million workers in Spain, published annually by the Social Security system, confirm that the sharp contrasts emerging in employment quality between sectors and regions, the processes of "precariousness of talent" and labour dualization expressed through inequalities in the occupational structure are each becoming significant threats to viable economic development.
Abstract: The impact of the economic crisis should act as an incentive to devise less vulnerable economic development models for Spanish cities. This study confirms that the impact of the creative economy, one of the most interesting initiatives in this context, remains very limited. Furthermore, microdata obtained from a sample of one million workers in Spain, published annually by the Social Security system, confirm that the sharp contrasts emerging in employment quality between sectors and regions, the processes of ‘precariousness of talent’ and labour dualization expressed through inequalities in the occupational structure are each becoming significant threats to viable economic development. For the creative economy to be an effective instrument for metropolitan regeneration, adapted to suit the specificities of particular urban development paths, an improved understanding of the inherent complexity of creative-economy employment relations is required.
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...In some cases, this type of work (creative, flexible, highly motivated, uncertain, with a high percentage of entrepreneurs and freelancers) reflects characteristics of post-Fordist labour relations and a work culture imbued with the new spirit of capitalism (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005)....
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Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociological interpretation of the increasing relevance of character and SES within education policy agendas at the global level is provided, where the focus is on what could be described as an intensification of reflexivity upon the human being, and a growing interest in the whole child in educational agendas.
Abstract: The essay discusses the concept of character, and some related notions, as they emerge in the contemporary discourse on education. The aim of this article is to provide a sociological interpretation of the increasing relevance of such notions within education policy agendas at the global level. More precisely, the focus is on what could be described as an intensification of reflexivity upon the human being, and a growing interest in the ‘whole child’ in educational agendas, i.e. in personal development beyond the learning outcomes regarding academic topics. The argument develops three main points. First, the principal structural and cultural conditionings are examined that play a role in fostering the renewed importance of personhood. Furthermore, different conceptual frameworks are examined that result in different psycho-semantics. The essay shows how such concepts as character and social and emotional skills (SES) epitomize different, comprehensive conceptions of human selfhood. The article examines their divergence and convergence alike. Finally, some possibilities of integration between the approaches of character and SES are briefly sketched.
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...15 Such a critique is also somewhat echoed by Boltanski and Chiapello (2007)....
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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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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.
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