Our eleventh issue features an investigation into the cult of Cambridge poet J. H. Prynne, a short history of Argentina, notes on the uprisings in the Middle East and Midwest, and a memoir of two brothers, one of whom went to Afghanistan. It also features debut fiction and a memoir of working with Bourdieu on a "fanzine for sociology."

n+1 Issue 11: Dual Power

Luc Boltanski

Marco Roth

NIKIL SAVAL

Benjamin Kunkel

Emily Witt

Eli S. Evans

Gemma Sieff

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Kent Russell

Andrew Jacobs

Megan K. Stack

Nicholas Dames

Amanda Claybaugh

Ken Kalfus

n+1 Foundation

The New Spirit of Capitalism

In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski go to the heart of the changes in contemporary business culture.Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their organization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace – a ‘freedom’ that came at the cost of material and psychological security.The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the libertarian and romantic currents of the late 1960s (as epitomised by dressed-down. cool capitalists such as Bill Gates and ‘Ben and Jerry’) arguing that they practice a more successful and subtle form of exploitation.In a work that is already a classic in Europe, Boltanski and Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the Left’s critique of the alienation of everyday life – a recuperation that simultaneously undermined the power of its social critique.

Business & Money

Ève Chiapello

Economics

Verso

Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (NRF essais)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Gallimard]

Der neue Geist des Kapitalismus

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