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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 88–104.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Aeron Davis This piece takes a close look at top CEOs in the United Kingdom. CEOs are not only among the ranks of today’s super-rich, they have played a vital part in the evolution of an economic system that supports the super-rich generally. As the article argues, they have done this in two key...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... explores the structural factors that have shaped the professional identities of contemporary CEOs, whom he regards as primary definers of and influences on contemporary wealth creation. Drawing from interview data, Davis identifies differences in the geographic and social networks, attitudes...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the cultural, economic, and political terrain, the language of meritocracy is regularly spouted from the mouths of celebrities, CEOs, and politicians. The meritocratic mantra that anybody can “rise to the top,” so long as they possess the requisite talent and effort, is an enduring and powerful one. Despite...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... virtual world Second Life , launched in 2003, would be different. Created by Linden Lab (named after the address of its first office, 333 Linden Street), Second Life's CEO, Philip Rosedale began the company with investors drawn from a range of “New Economy” technology and Internet-based companies...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 351–366.
Published: 01 July 2024
... was purchased by David Rockefeller, CEO of Chase Manhattan Corporation, who came to Lebanon to secure petrodollars invested in the country since the passing of the Banking Secrecy Law in 1956 ( fig. 4 ). Figure 3 Photograph depicting jurors Roger V. Gingertael and William Townsend selecting artworks...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 354–371.
Published: 01 November 2018
... CEO of the makerspace chain TechShop and author of The Maker Movement Manifesto (2013), writes about the movement as “the largest explosion of creativity and innovation the world has ever seen” and that it will “revolutionize innovation” (8). 3 The US Nation of Makers initiative suggests...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to fulfill the tier-3 security requirements before promoting the data center to potential clients. During the drive to the bunker from an airport in central Sweden, Frederik Vyncke, CEO of Rockan Data Center, 1 gave me an accelerated course on the nuclear shelters’ legacy in Sweden and their current...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Rolling Out Upscale Teavana Tea Cafes .” Chicago Tribune , April 29 , articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-29/business/ct-starbucks-teavana-0429-biz-20140429_1_tazo-ceo-howard-schultz-seattle-based-coffee-chain . ...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of the nation. Transpower CEO Craven was quoted as saying: “We are balancing private interests against national interests. We are balancing local interests against national interests” ( The New Zealand Herald , February 15, 2005: A2) and former Energy Minister Mallard lamented that such a focus on individual...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 315–328.
Published: 01 November 2015
...” ( Bennett-Smith 2013 ). When transportation secretary-designate Anthony Foxx recognized the National Day of Prayer as also the Day of Reason, the CEO of Concerned Women of America, Penny Nance, told Fox News: “You know the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism. And moral relativism...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... wife, Eliseeva, set up her charity Deti Marii (Maria’s Children) in the early 1990s, and both were active in running its activities. Veronika Zonabend is married to Ruben Vardanian, born in 1968 and former CEO and controlling shareholder of Troika Dialog, an investment bank. His assets were worth...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 July 2017
... was contemptuous of their party apparatus, traditions, conservative ideology, and traditionalist attitudes and habitus. Trump associated himself at the highest level of his campaign with alt-right figures like his campaign CEO Steve Bannon who were dedicated to the destruction of the Republican Party, as well...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to drop the Flynn-Russian investigations, telling the FBI director that he expected “loyalty” to himself, which put in play charges of possible obstruction of justice and impeachment. In addition, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice for secretary of state, had especially close...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
...). The idea of a new, authentic New Zealandness formed around the LOTR brand was not lost on the broader New Zealand film industry. Jones and Smith include a lengthy quote, worth reading in full, from Ruth Harley, former CEO of the New Zealand Film Commission, on the importance of cultural industries in New...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in this respect. One is Ty, Tyler Alexander Gospodinov, the visionary behind TruYou. The other wise man is Eamon Bailey, the caring public face of the Circle “loved” by all employees ( Eggers 2013 : 24). Tom Stenton, the third, is the Circle’s “world-striding CEO and self-described Capitalist Prime ” with “flat...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of femininity? . . . Women today are not called by the ruling ideology to be subordinated, they are called—solicited, expected—to be judges, administrators, ministers, CEOs, teachers, policewomen and soldiers. A paradigmatic scene occurring today in our security institutions is that of a feminine teacher/judge...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and aerospace interests. The new A+T lab also seems comfortable enough reproducing the political blind spot that so antagonized critics in the 1970s. For example, discussing John Craig Freeman’s project EEG AR: Things We Have Lost , Brian Mullins, founder and CEO of DAQRI, enthuses about the ease...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... are going to be so different that only the companies that seize the opportunity to do things a new way will be the ones that are successful in the years ahead. 1 Seven years later he concluded his address to 100 top CEOs with the following: “So [there are] plenty of things that let us focus our $6...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and sell something seemingly “new” and “different,” speed is of the essence. What this means is that cultural producers, from CEOs to individual artists, if they want to be commercially successful, must then appropriate that which is closest to hand; to mix and match styles, lines, shades, notes, chords...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and white supremacy in the United States and the world.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg exemplifies these ongoing settler legacies. Having purchased large tracts of land on Kauai in Hawai‘i, Zuckerberg has aggressively sought to evict Native Hawaiians who have lived there sustainably for generations, long...