Our corporations and administrations are dominated by a clique of people who, because they are symbolically interested, "give 100%" and expect others to do the same.
We can speak of a social class in charge of organizing work:
"Capital chooses a management team to represent it on the spot [in the corporations. Executives are meant] to supervise and organize the labors of the working population" (Harry Braverman USA, 1974, p. 405)
For Braverman, the people who really count in this team are those whose managerial positions offer them "a share in the surplus produced in the corporation, and thus is intended to attach them to the success or failure of the corporation and give them a ‘management stake’, even if a small one." (pp.405–6, original emphasis)
On Monday, the 14th #SpaceSyntax Symposium kicks off in Cyprus with an amazing programme full of interesting research on space, #architecture and society.
And I'll be giving a keynote (remotely) at the #SpaceSyntax Symposium #sss14cy myself together with sociologist Daryl Martin on 'Architecture meets Sociology – re-imagining users from two disciplinary perspectives'
Does anyone know a free tool that allows participants of a survey to anonymously upload up to 9 photos without seeing what others have uploaded? It's for my student research group, therefore no budget. We tried to embed the foto upload in our survey in #SoSciSurvey, but the tool only allows a total upload of up to 64 MB per survey (across all respondents), which is definitely not enough.
Has anyone wrote about how sociological and philosophical writing has changed over the last few centuries from being what the author really meant, really felt, to being what the writer believed people wanted to hear? (Yes, I know there is some Discourse Theory hidden in there somewhere.)
@andy@richard In case you don't already know it, Vilém Flusser’s Does Writing Have A Future (1987/2011) is interesting on the relationship between the author and reader, how it has changed, and how it is continuing to change.
Each folder corresponds to a chapter, and each script corresponds (roughly) to a section.
We run diagnostics on the scripts periodically to catch any issues and update them accordingly. Updates are documented here: https://www.textmapping.com/fixes/
(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)
Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.
Nope.
On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.
I occasionally get a like on this thread & wonder if I should continue it. But the conclusion of this year's market is that I chose to stay in #GradSchool another year over taking a job that didn't feel quite right at this time.
It's a big privilege to have breathing room & a job willing to take me back. It doesn't feel good but I'm a little more confident in the decision each day.
Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse edition
“There are some alarming statistics in the world today, and I take it as my job in these situations to urge the audience to keep their eye on the ball of real world problems — inequality, climate change, reproductive rights, war — and not blow our minds on world population in the year 2300.”
"Unsheltered populations experience higher rates of chronic disease, serious mental illness, and substance abuse than sheltered populations...Despite having large unmet health needs, unsheltered populations have lower healthcare utilization and often lack health insurance."
Luca Cinciripini from Istituto Affari Internazionali formulates recommendations "for the EU to enhance its role in global governance, leveraging its economic strength, diplomatic networks, and commitment to multilateralism to lead transformative efforts".