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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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'Open Marxism' against and beyond the 'Great Enclosure'? Reflections on How (Not) to Crack Capitalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an in-depth discussion of John Holloway's recent book, Crack Capitalism, focusing on six significant strengths of Crack Capitalism: (1) its insistence upon the importance of autonomous forms of agenda-setting for both individual and collective emancipation; (2) its emphasis on the ordinary constitution of social struggles; (3) its fine-grained interpretation of the socio-ontological conditions underlying human agency; (4) its processual conception of radical social transformation; (5) its recognition of the elastic, adaptable, and integrative power
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Introduction: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
Thomas Allmer,Ergin Bulut +1 more
TL;DR: The tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique special issue as mentioned in this paper gathers critical contributions examining universities, academic labour, digital media and capitalism, and discusses the political potentials and challenges within and beyond higher education institutions.
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Becoming ‘culturpreneur’: How the ‘neoliberal regime of truth’ affects and redefines artistic subject positions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within "flexible cultural capitalism" and show that the artists' modes of conduct are, at least to some extent, precarious.
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Free software production as critical social practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the phenomenon of free and open source software in the light of Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's The new spirit of capitalism, arguing that collaborative FOSS production by volunteer software developers is a species of critical social practice in Boltanski's and Chiappello's sense: rooted in resistance to capitalist social relations, and yet also a source of values that justify the new routes to profitability associated with contemporary network capitalism.
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Theories of Valuation - Building Blocks for Conceptualizing Valuation between Practice and Structure
Anne K. Krüger,Martin Reinhart +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key concepts within different theoretical approaches that need to be taken into account when theorizing valuation and suggest five building blocks for coming to terms with the multifaceted empirical studies in the sociology of valuation.
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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.