scholarly journals Television kasvattamat

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
Ilkka Levä
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The Web ◽  
Mode Of Production

Fight Club toimi uusliberalistisen yhteiskuntajärjestelmän työhön liittyvää affektituotantoa mallintavana ja tuottavana elokuvallisena koneena. Analyysi perustuu Jonathan Bellerin elokuvallisen tuotantomuodon teoriaan. Elokuvalla katsojat kalibroitiin tekemään huomiotalouden vaatimaa katsomistyötä. Palkaksi he saivat erilaisia viihtymisen muotoja. Gilles Deleuzen ”ajattelun kuva” -käsitteelle rinnasteisena kehitellään ”työn kuva” -käsitettä.Elokuvassa tuotettiin metaelokuvana sekä kuluttamiselle perustuvaa katsojakokemuksen tilaa että yleisempää työn kuvaa. Tuottavana koneena eli metaelokuvana Fight Club koetti paeta työelämän tuottamia vieraannuttavia affekteja marginaalisuuden ”mustiin aukkoihin”. Huomiotalouden spektaakkelina se kuitenkin kietoi katsojansa globaaliin kulttuuriteollisuuden verkostoon muuttaen katsojakokemusta yhteiskuntien sosiaalisella kentällä. Artikkelissa pohditaan, miten Fight Club vaikutti uusliberalistiselle yhteiskuntajärjestelmälle tyypilliseen työn kuvaan.Avainsanat: affekti, metaelokuva, työn kuva, huomiotalous, uusliberalismiRaised by TV. The Meta-Cinematic Image of Work in Fight ClubThe film Fight Club was a cinematic machine, which modelled and produced the affective labor of work in a neoliberal society. The analysis is based on Jonathan Beller’s theory of cinematic mode of production. Spectators were calibrated to do the viewing work required of attention economy. As a reward, they attained different modes of entertainment and enjoyment. In the article, Gilles Deleuze’s concept of “the image of thought” is reformulated and put to use as the concept of “the image of work”.At the metacinematic level, Fight Club is argued to produce an image of spectatorship as consumerism, as well as a generalized image of work. As a producing machine, Fight Club tries to flee the alienating affects of working life to the “black holes” of marginality. As an attention economy spectacle, it simultaneously enfolds the viewers in the web of global culture industry, transforming the viewer experience in the social field of global societies. The article centers on the question of how Fight Club effected the typical image of work in neoliberal societies.Keywords: affect, meta-cinema, image of work, attention economy, neoliberalism

Coinage and the Tributary Mode of Production

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Manzano Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Role ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Mode Of Production

This chapter addresses a very simple question: is it possible to frame coinage in the Early Middle Ages? The answer will be certainly yes, but will also acknowledge that we lack considerable amounts of relevant data potentially available through state-of-the-art methodologies. One problem is, though, that many times we do not really know the relevant questions we can pose on coins; another is that we still have not figured out the social role of coinage in the aftermath of the Roman Empire. This chapter shows a number of things that could only be known thanks to the analysis of coins. And as its title suggests it will also include some reflections on greed and generosity.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louçã Francisco ◽  
Ash Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
First Century ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Mode Of Production

This book investigates two questions, how did finance become hegemonic in the capitalist system; and what are the social consequences of the rise of finance? We do not dwell on other topics, such as the evolution of the mode of production or the development of class conflict over the longer run. Our theme is not the genesis, history, dynamics, or contradictions of capitalism but, instead, we address the rise of financialization beginning in the last quarter of the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first century. Therefore, we investigate the transnationalization of the circuits and processes of capital accumulation that originated the expansion and financialization of the mechanisms of production, social reproduction, and hegemony, including the ideology, the functioning of the states, and the political decision making. We do not discuss the prevailing neoliberalism as an ideology, although we pay attention to the creation and diffusion of ideas, since we sketch an overview of the process of global restructuring of production and finance leading to the prevalence of the shadow economy....

Interactional means of teaming up: enacting the features of contemporary working life in a theater performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riikka Nissi ◽  
Melisa Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Workplace Organization ◽  
The One

Abstract The article examines how the aspects of the social world are enacted in a theater play. The data come from a videotaped performance of a professional theater, portraying a story about a workplace organization going through a personnel training program. The aim of the study is to show how the core theme of the play – the teaming up of the personnel – is constructed in the live performance through a range of interactional means. By focusing on four core episodes of the play, the study on the one hand points out to the multiple changes taking place both within and between the different episodes of the play. On the other hand, the episodes of collective action involving the semiotic resources of singing and dancing are shown to represent the ideals of teamwork in distinct ways. The study contributes to the understanding of socially and politically oriented theater as a distinct, pre-rehearsed social setting and the means and practices that it deploys when enacting the aspects of the contemporary societal issues.

Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clary Krekula ◽  
Lars-Gunnar Engström ◽  
Aida Alvinius
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Scheme

The Swedish government policy on extended working life has since its introduction in the mid-1990s aimed to lower the costs of the public pension system and to reduce the financial burden for workers. By focusing on an idealised category of those who are "willing and able to work longer", the policy has neglected the obstacles faced by those with physically demanding jobs or with a big responsibility to care for a close relative. This mainly affects women and upholds a neoliberal view of older people. By only problematizing gender perspective on the challenges to gender equality in working life, a narrow understanding of gender equality is created which deviates from other national gender equality policies. The policy debate thereby contributes also to excluding older women and men from the Swedish gender equality project. Despite the argument that an extended working life is needed to ensure the value of pensions, this does not apply to those who are unable to continue working - they are instead expected to rely on the social security scheme.

Social Policy Digest Online

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
Fran Bennett ◽  
Ken Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Web

The Social Policy Digest went online in the summer of 2003. This means that the Digest, which used to be printed as part of the Journal of Social Policy, is now only available via the web.

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