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Blackness And Governance, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Blackness And Governance, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
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The Culture Of Management, Stefano Harney
The Culture Of Management, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
From filo faxes to palm pilots; from cell phones to laptops; from spreadsheets to online banking, many of us try to make the most of our day, to not waste any time, to maximize our efficiency. These are the hallmarks of time, financial, and information management. More and more we find ourselves managing our time, health, finances, careers and families. We are all managers now. In The Culture of Management, Stefano Harney investigates how the principles of management now shape our lives, both individually and collectively. Ironically, as we embrace the tools of management in our personal lives, as workers …
We’Ve Been Speculating, Stefano Harney
We’Ve Been Speculating, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
We’ve been speculating. They say our speculation is going to make things worse. But we keep speculating. We’re on the porch, on the corner, in the bar, at the stove, speculating. We’re with others speculating. We’re in debt, bad debt, with others. We’re speculating on others and they’re speculating on us at the table, round the playground, on the bus. We’ve been speculating, banking on each other. We’ve been counting on others, speculating about them. We’re with them and they’rewith us, speculating.
The Real Knowledge Transfer, Stefano Harney
The Real Knowledge Transfer, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
In Britain, knowledge transfer (KT) is taking a new turn. As a university policy, KT emphasized intellectual property rights. The dream of the managers of the university was to patent knowledge produced in university departments, laboratories, and lecture halls. This new proprietary knowledge would then either earn rent from the private sector, and in some cases the public sector, or lead to the founding of new private firms, owned in part by the university, the so-called spin-off.
Unfinished Business: The Cultural Commodity And Its Labour Process, Stefano Harney
Unfinished Business: The Cultural Commodity And Its Labour Process, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
In what follows I am going to argue that the rise of the creative industries has in general been understood too narrowly. This narrow understanding has had implications for the way that a politics of management and labour in the creative industries has been framed and contained, and it has held back an analysis of class struggle in the creative industries. To elaborate an understanding of labour in the creative industries I am going to revisit some insights related to the development of British cultural studies, and try to link these insights to what Stuart Hall calls the conditions of …