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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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Introduction: The Transparency Issue
Jan Teurlings,Markus Stauff +1 more
TL;DR: The special issue on transparency as mentioned in this paper delineates a conceptual context for a critical analysis of the contemporary discourse on transparency and the media mechanisms related to it, focusing on three ambivalences inherent to transparency: (a) The Enlightenment and modernity promise transparency and at the same time produce a structural complexity undermining all simple endeavors to make things visible.
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Performing Network Theory? Reflexive Relationship Management on Social Network Sites
Gernot Grabher,Jonas König +1 more
TL;DR: Theoretical models derived from the scientific analysis of networks increasingly inform the architecture of social network algorithms and thus transform network practices as discussed by the authors, and they are also indicative of new ways how socio-technical devices and algorithms quasi-automatically govern practice.
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Comparative and Historical Perspectives in Economic Sociology
TL;DR: In the discipline of economics, the prevailing view is that economic behavior is determined exogenously, by a force outside of society,rather than endogenously by forces within this article.
Pastoral Counseling in the Neoliberal Age: Hello Best Practices, Goodbye Theology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the practice of professional pastoral counseling has undergone a radical transformation in the last three decades, as it has suffered renovation to be in compliance with the dominant neoliberal culture, and they argue that neoliberalism provides a more compelling context for understanding this change than notions of postmodernity that are divorced from the economic and political power structures that support them.
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The way out : invisible insurrections and radical imaginaries in the UK underground 1961-1991
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a hidden history of experiments to engineer culture to transform and transform humanity and examine the relations between collective practices with an explicit agenda of cultural revolution and discourses of direct revolutionary action.
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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.