The Dig: Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
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🗓️ 3 February 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that discipline and control those most exploited and excluded by contemporary American capitalism. As is often the case, however, the focus shifted elsewhere soon after disturbances in the street came to end. Political scientist Lester Spence recently wrote an article about why children were freezing in Baltimore public schools: the heating didn’t work, something that can only be made sense of when viewed in the longer history of capital flight, racial and class segregation, and the rise of a service-economy carceral state: jacobinmag.com/2018/01/baltimore-freezing-schools-children-racism-austerity. Thanks to Verso for their support. Check out The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello versobooks.com/books/2513-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism Support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com and by Verso Books which has tons of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.0 | One that you might like is the new story. perfect for Dig listeners like you. |
| 0:13.0 | One that you might like is The New Spirit of Capitalism, |
| 0:16.0 | by Luke Bultanski and Eve Chippello. |
| 0:19.0 | A new edition translated by Gregory Elliot. |
| 0:23.4 | In this major work, sociologist Luke Baltanski and Eve Chippello go to the heart of the |
| 0:28.8 | changes in contemporary capitalism. |
| 0:31.9 | Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management text. capitalism. They argue that from the |
| 0:46.1 | middle of the 1970s onwards capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fortis work |
| 0:51.1 | structure and developed a new network-based form of organization |
| 0:55.2 | that was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace, a freedom that came |
| 1:02.0 | at the cost of material and psychological security. |
| 1:06.8 | The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the Libertarian and Romantic Currents |
| 1:11.9 | of the late 1960s, as epitomized by dress down cool |
| 1:16.3 | capitalists like Bill Gates and Ben and Jerry, arguing that they practice a more successful and subtle form of exploitation. |
| 1:26.1 | Now a classic work charting the sociological structure of neoliberalism, Baltanski and Chappello |
| 1:32.1 | show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation |
| 1:36.7 | of the Left's critique of the alienation of everyday life that simultaneously undermined |
| 1:42.2 | their social critique. |
| 1:43.4 | In this new edition, the two authors reflect on the reception of the book |
| 1:48.3 | and the debates that it is stimulated. |
| 1:50.4 | The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luke Bultanski and Eve Chappello. |
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