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The Performativity of Value

Author : Steve Sherlock
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739168622
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Performativity of Value written by Steve Sherlock and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities addresses the increased commodification of language in the U.S. cultural economy. The marketing of cultural commodities in formats such as websites, videos, movies, books, online games, or television episodes—as distributed across a wide range of technological devices—means that language is moving across situational contexts to an unprecedented degree. Just as authors quote or paraphrase sources in the construction of a text, subjects “cite” the commodified words, images, and works of others as they construct their social identities. Steve Sherlock discusses how consumer citational practices generate demand for those cultural commodities which align the self with particular subcultural groups. By “re-citing” the exchange value frame within which language itself has acquired an economic worth, consumer citational practices have become performative of the U.S. cultural economy. In order to describe this process, the book extends the work of Judith Butler on the performativity of gender to the performativity of exchange value, as well as to the performativity of subcultural values. The book also develops a critique of the increasing commodification of language in the contemporary economy. Sherlock follows Butler in developing a model of performativity based on Jacques Derrida’s work, particularly regarding the citability of language into new situational contexts. Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence in Western philosophy and culture is extended toward a critique of the assumed presence of exchange value in the cultural marketplace. The book also incorporates the work of the Bakhtin Circle into this framework—especially their insight into how everyday utterances, which “report on” the words of others, become a site for the re-negotiation of values between self and others. The re-citational process used in contemporary identity construction can thus either re-cite the current cultural economy, or resist it. The Performativity of Value contributes to themes examined in social theory, social psychology, literary theory, continental philosophy, and cultural studies, and thus will be of interest to students and scholars working in those areas.

Do Economists Make Markets?

Author : Donald A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691130163
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Do Economists Make Markets? written by Donald A. MacKenzie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Transformative Power of Performance

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134047495
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Transformative Power of Performance written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes. With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.

Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective

Author : Sergio Barile
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319872025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective written by Sergio Barile and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations. The aim is to increase readers’ understanding of complexity and of socio-economic interactions through the application of systems thinking perspectives. Among the various areas and topics addressed are complexity and sustainable management, markets as complex adaptive systems, the impacts of psychological and emotional factors upon value co-creation exchanges, and ICT enablers of service network performance and service exchange fulfillment. Thanks to the chosen perspectives, all of which are based on different systems research streams, the book will support more consistent and robust decisions, leading to sustainable, wise, and viable systems dynamics. It will aid managers, practitioners, and consultants in their decision-making processes and will also be of interest for academics and scholars in management, systems, computer science, engineering, and marketing.

Valuation in Welfare Markets

Author : Linus Johansson Krafve
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9175190583
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis Valuation in Welfare Markets by : Linus Johansson Krafve

Download or read book Valuation in Welfare Markets written by Linus Johansson Krafve and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis takes an interest in how values attain a specific meaning in market reforms of welfare provision. The study builds on exploring how values are enacted rather than treating them as universal and stable. The aim of the thesis is to contribute conceptually to the understanding of how market-making activities in the welfare state bureaucracy handle the values at play in welfare reform. The empirical case is the governance of a so-called care choice system in a Swedish county council. The methodology for the study is “shadowing” of public officials working to formulate a so-called rulebook for care centres. The analysis describes how these officials handle a variety of values when designing the rulebook. How they choose to organize their work – the methods used to collect data about care centre performance, what governance tools they employ, how they arrange their work roles, and how they construct the rulebook – leads to value shifts and determines the meaning of values in practice. The officials’ work practice is political in the sense that it actively shapes the values enacted in the care choice reform. Therefore, it is of great importance to spur a broader debate about the organization of such governance practices, while there is a need to problematize simplistic images of what market reforms of welfare entails in practice. The thesis proposes that an “ecological” – i.e. a situated, reflexive, and malleable – approach to handling of contending values may contribute to such debates.

Performativity & Belonging

Author : Vikki Bell
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609175
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Performativity & Belonging written by Vikki Bell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance and fracture are produced and reproduced. Questions of ′difference′ are tackled from a perspective that attends to the complexities of history and politics. Drawing on sociology, philosophy and anthropology, this collection brings together leading commentators, including Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a range of new scholars. It examines questions of visuality, political affiliation, ethics, mimesis, spatiality, passing, and diversity in modes of embodied difference. The volume advances conceptual and theoretical issues through testing various propositions around specific examples or questions. What emerges is a rich engagement with the complexity of contemporary forms of belonging.

Performativity and Performance

Author : Andrew Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415910552
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Performativity and Performance written by Andrew Parker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation

Author : Sarah Bracking
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135162511X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation written by Sarah Bracking and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation looks to explore the complex interdependencies, contradictions and trade-offs that can take place between economic values and the social, environmental, political and ethical systems that inform non-monetary valuation processes. Using rich empirical material, the book explores the processes of valuation, their components, calculative technologies, and outcomes in different social, ecological and conservation domains. The book gives reasons for why economic calculation tends to dominate in practice, but also presents new insights on how the disobedient materiality of things and the ingenuity of human and non-human agencies can combine and frustrate the dominant economic models within calculative processes. This book highlights the tension between, on the one hand, a dominant model that emphasises technical and ‘universalising’ criteria, and on the other hand, valuation practice in specific local contexts which is more likely to negotiate criteria that are plural, incommensurable and political. This book is perfect for researchers and students within development studies, environment, geography, politics, sociology and anthropology who are looking for new insights into how processes of valuation take place in the 21st century, and with what consequential outcomes.

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture

Author : Mitra Kanaani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429664389
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture written by Mitra Kanaani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture focuses on a non-linear, multilateral, ethical way of design thinking, positioning the design process as a journey. It expands on the multiple facets and paradigms of performative design thinking as an emerging trend in design methodology. This edited collection explores the meaning of performativity by examining its relevance in conjunction with three fundamental principles: firmness, commodity and delight. The scope and broader meaning of performativity, performative architecture and performance-based building design are discussed in terms of how they influence today’s design thinking. With contributions from 44 expert practitioners, educators and researchers, this volume engages theory, history, technology and the human aspects of performative design thinking and its implications for the future of design.

Theory of Value Structure

Author : Erich H. Rast
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793616957
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Value Structure written by Erich H. Rast and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of value structure concerns the meaning of “better than” and “good,” as well as the way in which values serve as a basis for rational decision making. Drawing methodologically from economics and theories of decision making, the aim of serious axiology in metaethics is to do justice to problems that have puzzled philosophers of value for centuries. Can value comparisons be cyclic? Are all values comparable with each other and can decision makers just add up different aspects of an evaluation to determine the best course of action? A Theory of Value Structure: From Values to Decisions starts with a thorough introduction to the modeling of “better than” comparisons from a normative perspective. In the philosophical part of the book, Erich H. Rast argues that aspects of “better than” comparisons can differ qualitatively so much that one aspect may outrank another. Consequently, the classical weighted sum aggregation model fails. Values cannot always be summed up and comparisons may be fundamentally noncompensatory, an indeterminacy that explains problems like the apparent nontransitivity of “better than” and hard cases in decision making. Using a lexicographic method of value comparisons, Rast develops a multidimensional theory of “better than” and shows how and to which extent it can be combined with standard methods of decision making under uncertainty by using rank-dependent utility theory.

Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Author : Joe Zhu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475742460
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking written by Joe Zhu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managers are often under great pressure to improve the performance of their organizations. To improve performance, one needs to constantly evaluate operations or processes related to producing products, providing services, and marketing and selling products. Performance evaluation and benchmarking are a widely used method to identify and adopt best practices as a means to improve performance and increase productivity, and are particularly valuable when no objective or engineered standard is available to define efficient and effective performance. For this reason, benchmarking is often used in managing service operations, because service standards (benchmarks) are more difficult to define than manufacturing standards. Benchmarks can be established but they are somewhat limited as they work with single measurements one at a time. It is difficult to evaluate an organization's performance when there are multiple inputs and outputs to the system. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships between the inputs and the outputs are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. It is critical to show benchmarks where multiple measurements exist. The current book introduces the methodology of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and its uses in performance evaluation and benchmarking under the context of mUltiple performance measures.

Maximizing .NET Performance

Author : Nick Wienholt
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430207841
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Maximizing .NET Performance written by Nick Wienholt and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Full analysis of performance characteristics of the .NET Framework, including actual benchmark results * Information on the internals of the .NET Framework and exposure to the various elements that make up the .NET Framework * Description of tools and techniques for identifying performance problems developers may encounter * References to sources of further information on various performance topics * Written by a Microsoft MVP in a technically unique style and of the highest quality

Worth Doing

Author : Steven G. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791461051
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Worth Doing written by Steven G. Smith and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.

Value

Author : Frederick Harry Pitts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509535675
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Value written by Frederick Harry Pitts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the economic contribution of different kinds of work and productive activity, to the prices we pay for the things we consume. So what is value, and where does it come from? In this new book, Frederick Harry Pitts charts the past, present and future of value within and beyond capitalist society, critically engaging with key concepts from classical and neoclassical political economy. Interrogating the processes and practices that attribute value to objects and activities, he considers debates over whether value lies within commodities or in their exchange, the politics of different theories of value, and how we measure value in a knowledge-based economy. This accessible and intriguing introduction to the complexities of value in modern society will be essential reading for any student or scholar working in political economy, economics, economic sociology or management.

EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains (EX-ACT VC)

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251099464
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains (EX-ACT VC) written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guidance presents details on how to use the EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for Value Chain (EX-ACT VC), with the aim of providing a multi-impact appraisal in terms of socio-economic and environmental assessment for value chain analysis. Following the EX-ACT logic, EX-ACT VC compares the environmental and socio-economic performances of current value chains with those of an improved scenario (applicable to different degrees of the chain), based on the analysis of agricultural production, land use changes, processing, transport and climate resilience. EX-ACT VC has been developed for all types of agricultural sectors (which include here fisheries and livestock) that have the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change and to develop the resilience of rural populations that are dependent on them. The tool targets value chains in developing countries for single or more complex sectors, taking into account several agricultural practices and one end-type specific to a region or area.

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

Author : Stewart Clegg
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412915155
Total Pages : 2009 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies written by Stewart Clegg and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 2009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the field, spanning individual, organisation, societal and cultural perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner, this is the premier reference tool for students, lecturers, academics and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the perspective of organisation studies.

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

Author : Bertie Ferdman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350057584
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art written by Bertie Ferdman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.