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- Löfgren, Orvar, et al.
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Introduction: The Mandrake Mode
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture and The New Economy. ; , s. 1-18
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- Willim, Robert, et al.
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It's in The Mix: Configuring Industrial Cool
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture and The New Economy. - 9781845200909 ; , s. 97-104
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent decades, a transformation of traditional industries has taken place in large parts of the Western world, involving a number of interesting combination processes. One manifestation of Industrial Cool may be referred to as 'recycled factories', whereby different types of cultural institutions have established themselves in industrial premises and touched up the aesthetics of a former industrial manufacturing environment. Within the frame of a Mandrake mode of economy, new mixes can convert nonmaterial and elusive entities into values, with the hope of creating new possibilities and benefits. A distance to different parts of the industrial scene is thus created with the help of modern techniques. The importance of synergy effects and hybrid amalgamations is accentuated in different places in the company rhetoric about the Transparent Factory. According to the company rhetoric, the factory is a new arena for people in Dresden.
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Magic, Culture and The New Economy
- 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What happens when economies 'heat up'? This book looks at the 1990s, years of intense economic experimentation, when buzz words such as 'network society', 'the experience economy', 'creative cities' and 'glocalization' were everywhere. A fascinating perspective on 'The New Economy' emerges as the authors explore the worlds of coolhunters, biotech brokers, career coaches, software entrepreneurs and event managers and tackle such questions as: How is magic used in the quest for newness and change? What happens when cultural techniques such as branding and styling colonize new arenas? And, what turns out to be just a flash-in-the-pan and what has a lasting impact? This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how economies operate in periods of rapid transformation.
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- O'Dell, Thomas, et al.
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Meditation, Magic and Spiritual Regeneration: Spas and the Mass Production of Serenity
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture and the New Economy.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter investigates the tension between mass production and individual well-being, and how the actors who have positioned themselves in this market attract customers and meet their needs. In order to approach these questions, it is grounded in empirical material gathered from two specific spas and the cultural context in which they operate: Varberg Kurort Hotel & Spa and Hasseludden Conference &Yasuragi. The chapter begins by presenting the contours of Marcel Mauss's theory of magic. It uses 'magical rites', 'magical representations' and the concept of 'the magician' as the three primary metaphors. The chapter focuses on magical rites, magical representations and the magicians behind it all can actually helps to understand the dynamics of spas and the cultural economy we live in today. Magic is essentially the art of doing things, and magicians have always taken advantage of their know-how, their dexterity, their manual skill.
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- Salomonsson, Karin, et al.
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Flexible, Adaptable, Employable: Ethics for a New Labour Market
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture and the New Economy. - 1845200918 ; , s. 117-129
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A leaner organization of labour, outsourcing and new forms of employment imply significant changes. Politicians and private employers alike emphasize that it is the individual's responsibility to be 'employable'. In his influential discussion of flexible capitalism, Richard Sennett traces the concept of flexibility back to fifteenth-century English. Then it was used with reference to patterns of movement exemplified by the ability of a tree to bend in the wind and then straighten again. Flexibility can be associated with creativity, which implies an open-minded attitude or a state of readiness to act in the face of new ideas and ways of working. In a labour market situation that demands constant upgrading and development, an industry of companies working with competence development has emerged: educational companies, consultants, therapists, management professionals and, more recently, colleges offering everything from further education to an afternoon's stand-up comedy.
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- Strannegård, Maria, et al.
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Transformers. Hip hotels and the cultural economics of aura-production.
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture and the New Economy. - 1845200918 - 184520090X - 9781845200916 - 9781845200909
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Yta är, paradoxalt nog, ofta något grundläggande i receptet för framgång i dagens ekonomiska system. Utseende, klädsel, attityd och attribut är centrala element i det som Erving Goffman kallar impression management: förmågan att avge ”rätt” intryck med hjälp av välformulerade självpresentationer som, baserade på statussymboler och associationer, indikerar vem man är eller vill vara (se Goffman 1959). Denna ekonomi framstår som präglad av vikten av accessoarer: alla de omgivande små attribut som genom att kombineras rätt kan framställa det individuella jaget som något unikt och framgångsrikt. Denna text diskuterar hur Pan Interactive, ett ungt och coolt tv-spelsförlag under dotcom-eran, använde sig av trendiga så kallade boutiquehotell som sådana accessoarer i byggandet av företagets varumärke. Med utgångspunkt i intervjuer med förlagets chef och en av hans anställda beskriver artikeln hur Pan ägde rum i hotellen, använde dem som "front stage" i sina kundmöten (jmfr Goffman 1959). Genom att fokusera de abstrakta kvaliteter som boutiquehotellet erbjuder sina gäster, diskuterar texten hur olika typer av hotellmiljöer kan ses som arenor för tranformationsprocesser i vilka ekonomiska, kulturella och sociala former av kapital blandas, förändras och övergår i varandra. Genom att belysa hur hotellen integreras i interaktionen mellan tv-spelsförlaget och deras kunder, framhävs platsens roll som en sofistikerad aktör i servicemötet.
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- Willim, Robert, et al.
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Transmutations of Noise
- 2013
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Ingår i: Coping with Excess. How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows. - 9781782548584 ; , s. 118-132
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Åkesson, Lynn, et al.
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Trick or treatment. Brokering biotech.
- 2005
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Ingår i: Magic, Culture, and the New Economy. - 1845200918 - 9781845200916 - 184520090X - 9781845200909
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter focuses on technology-brokers and inventors who operate in a medical context. It aims to discuss how relationships between the actors involved affect the possibility of transforming innovations into consumables, and to describe the kind of social work needed to successfully make this transformation. The chapter explores some of those tricks by using the concept 'net work' when discussing technology-brokers, 'face work' when talking about inventors, and finally 'trust work' when considering relationships between several actors. Brokering is, of course, not restricted to the specific arena of medicine and biotechnology. This middle-man position can be found in many different contexts. Erving Goffman introduced the concept of face work in the 1950s, In brief, the concept is about how people try to maintain a balance or consistency between their actions and presentations of themselves
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