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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 Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting Reforestation Project
Véra Ehrenstein,Fabian Muniesa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study on one carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo is presented, where the authors analyse the construction of the scene that allows the "What would have happened" question to make sense and become actionable.
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The corrosive effects of neoliberalism on the UK financial crises and auditing practices: A dead-end for reforms
TL;DR: The UK's financial sector has been the subject of frauds and crisis during every decade since the 1970s as mentioned in this paper, and despite the failures, banking and auditing reforms continue to be grounded in neoliberal ideology and are unlikely to address the crisis.
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WORK AND THE CITY IN THE e-SOCIETY A critical investigation of the sociospatially situated character of economic production in the digital content industries in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present case study material of three very specific parts of the new media/digital content industries (film special effects, computer games and web design) and conclude that both technological reductive and agentic accounts have underplayed the continuing importance of the social and economic embeddedness of production, and of the situated coconstitution of technologies, people and places.
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Post-Cinematic Affect: On Grace Jones, Boarding Gate and Southland Tales
TL;DR: The authors explores the "structure of feeling" that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalisation and the financialisation of more and more human activities, focusing on three recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones's song "Corporate Cannibal", Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; and Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson and other pop culture celebrities.
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Introduction: Risk and ‘Risk Society’ in Historical Perspective
Soraya Boudia,Nathalie Jas +1 more
TL;DR: The role of history in analyzing risks in the fields of science and technology has been discussed in this paper, where the authors stress the necessity not only to compile a history of risk, but also to account for the emergence, development and uses of risk and risk society.
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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.