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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: For contemporary cultural policy, non-creative work continues to form a conceptual blindspot: a foil to define and value creativity against as discussed by the authors, and existing categories to augment the...
Abstract: For contemporary cultural policy, ‘non-creative’ work continues to form a conceptual blindspot: a foil to define and value creativity against. This paper develops existing categories to augment the...
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...In contrast with creativity, bureaucracy remains negatively coded (Bilton 2015; Boltanski and Chiapello 2005; Du Gay 2004)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors understand the growing problem of work-related mental fatigue in relation to the normative demand for self-realization that confronts contemporary Western individuals, and they show how the consequences of these changes prevented an enduring authentic selfrealization, giving rise to an escalating conflict between a standardized and unconditional selfrealisation.
Abstract: This article understands the growing problem of work-related mental fatigue in relation to the normative demand for self-realization that confronts contemporary Western individuals. The empirical basis of the study is in-depth interviews with individuals on long-term sick-leave with various mental fatigue diagnoses. The analysis of the interviews indicates that a common denominator was the search for being authentic at work by exploring and demonstrating one's capacities and skills to fulfill personal values in a working environment characterized by reorganizations and/or downsizing that the employees had little influence upon. The article shows how the consequences of these changes prevented an enduring authentic self-realization, giving rise to an escalating conflict between a standardized and unconditional self-realization. A discussion is then taken up on how this discrepancy was connected to a growing exhaustion, coupled with increased feelings of emptiness and low self-esteem. Finally, the fatigue s...
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TL;DR: This paper examined how marketers discursively perform boundary work in the construction of their identities and found that a tension exists in drawing on discourses of renegadism and professionalism to construct their identities, resulting in their engagement in chameleonlike identity work.
Abstract: Although the identities of brands and consumers have been extensively explored, less is understood about the subjectivity of marketers themselves. In the ambiguous and dynamic exchange process of marketing, the articulation of identities is fundamental to demarcate the activities and actions that take place between market actors. In recent times, growing importance has been placed on a different breed of marketer in these exchanges - the cultural intermediary. For these marketing practitioners, knowledge about the interplay between culture and economy generates the cultural capital that legitimises their expertise and value. Yet, this simultaneously gives rise to the difficult navigation and accomplishment of boundaries between their work and pleasure. Through a case study of two coolhunting agencies, this paper examines how marketers discursively perform boundary work in the construction of their identities. The findings show that, for coolhunters, a tension exists in drawing on discourses of renegadism and professionalism to construct their identities, resulting in their engagement in chameleon-like identity work. The research proposes that the tensions pervading the construction of boundaries and identities for marketers can be usefully understood through a paradox lens, and offers the metaphor of the nomad as a theoretical representation of interwoven identity conflicts for marketers.
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...Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005 ; Braidotti, 1994 ; Deleuze & Guattari, 1988 )....
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25 Feb 2020
TL;DR: This paper explored the entrepreneurial narratives performed by entrepreneurs (from outside academia) as desirable identity-building models for Finnish university students and found that they can be used to identify Finnish students from outside academia.
Abstract: In this ethnographic research, we explore the entrepreneurial narratives performed by entrepreneurs (from outside academia) as desirable identity-building models for Finnish university students dur...
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...The construction of this new working life (with the attributes of networking, constant activity, convincing others, etc.) manifests the kind of futuristic imagination that Boltanski and Chiapello (2005a) call a paradigm change from a second to a third spirit of capitalism....
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...To him, any contact was possible and natural (see Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005a, p. 113; Gill, 2014)....
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...…exploitive elements: on the one hand, when (working) life is construed as a series of projects, work is seen to offer flexibility, freedom, and choice to individuals, and an opportunity to engage meaningful, creative activity in different kinds of networks (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005a, p. 155)....
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...Within this spirit—which justifies people’s commitment to capitalism and which renders this commitment attractive—entrepreneurs are ‘‘great persons’’ (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005b), who not only seize the right opportunities and make a fortune for themselves in the competitive marketplace, but are…...
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...…are ‘‘great persons’’ (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005b), who not only seize the right opportunities and make a fortune for themselves in the competitive marketplace, but are also able to spread the benefits of social connections and generate enthusiasm (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005b, p. 169)....
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TL;DR: While major cases of whistleblowing may not be an everyday occurrence, their effects are often wide-ranging, celebrated, and controversial as mentioned in this paper, and given this potent cocktail, the whistleblower is conspicu...
Abstract: While major cases of whistleblowing may not be an everyday occurrence, their effects are often wide-ranging, celebrated, and controversial. Given this potent cocktail, the whistleblower is conspicu...
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...Following the earlier definition of whistleblowers as driven by a reformist and corrective ambition (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005: 32–3), democratic dramas around whistleblowing typically concern a realignment with, or restoration of, those collectively sanctioned values and rules that are…...
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...Second, and partly following from the previous point, the aim behind the disclosure is rarely radical, but rather reformist, or perhaps more precisely, corrective (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005: 32–3)....
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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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