The Culture of the New Capitalism
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Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See moreRichard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Emi added
Mastery and competence are dramatically devalued at the expense of what Sennett calls “cooperation,” presumably unintentionally echoing Whyte’s far more blatant derision in using this word, but which we are happy to characterize more bluntly as manipulation.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
The experience economy caters to those able to physically move from A to B to witness an event, or to consume any given thing that adds to a list of site or material-specific experiences. However, when social capital is created by knowledge, rather than 'umami', a more democratic, interesting, and potentially productive value system can take over.
Sane • Cultural Signals: The Internal Experience Economy
Stuart Evans added
what we need to do is rethink this sense of unfettered capitalism in an age of globalization and say, no, we still have to value community, we still have to value place, and we need to have a capitalist system that allows for enough state intervention, that helps places survive and thrive.
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
Keely Adler added
Mastery and competence are dramatically devalued at the expense of what Sennett calls “cooperation,” presumably unintentionally echoing Whyte’s far more blatant derision in using this word, but which we are happy to characterize more bluntly as manipulation.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
“[...] The distinctive feature of the societies to which this historical process [i.e. capitalism and industrialist mass production] gave rise is that productive activity is mostly governed by a logic that tends to strip it of things like meaning, playfulness and sociability.”
Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity
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