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The Culture of the New Capitalism
What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
The erosion of work being a key part of identity. Stability takes priority over wealth and passion. Fulfillment is found elsewhere.
Jonny Hawton • Scar Tissue - Predictions of the Long-Term Bahaviorial Scars of the 2020 Recession on Gen Z
sari 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
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
“[...] 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
Nicole Woods added
As the individual experiences an ever-growing sense of acceleration provided by technological developments (new media and the “speeding up” of the infosphere) alongside a general decrease in security of past provisions and expectations (read: precarity, freelance positions, housing shortages, and increasing wealth disparities coexisting with rhetor... See more
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
Sixian added
Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems. To function effectively as a component of just-in-time production you must develop a capacity to respond to unforeseen events
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