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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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The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine network analysis and social movement theories to represent civil society as a system of relations between multiple actors and identify different logics of collective action within the same local settings.
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Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives And Practices
Thomas Austin,Wilma de Jong +1 more
TL;DR: Documentary studies: dimensions of continuity and transition by John Corner as discussed by the authors The question of evidence, the power of rhetoric and documentary film by Bill Nichols First-person films: some theses on self-inscription by Michael Renov 'To leave the confinements of his humanness': authorial voice, death and constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man by Thomas Austin Collective subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs.
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Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century
TL;DR: Aron's early intellectual trajectory as a journey from naive socialist idealism to mature liberal realism has been investigated in this paper, with a focus on the Algerian War and its consequences.
Neoliberal Newspeak and Digital Capitalism in Crisis
Paula Chakravartty,Dan Schiller +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provided an overview of the dominant business and financial news media, primarily in the United States, but also in the urbanizing nations of China and India, and argued that rigorous scrutiny of business media is vital to global economic health.
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Transitional and perpetual liminality: An identity practice perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine a focus on liminality with an analysis of social actors' discursive practices of identity position taking, pointing out that transitional 'liminars' abandon 'old' identities and construct 'new' ones.
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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.