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...Jack Tager Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Partners in Design: Chicago Architects, Entrepreneurs, and the Evolution of Urban Commercial Architecture Jack Tager The skyscraper, along with other modern artifacts such as the suspen­ sion bridge, the railroad station, the airplane...

...Andrew Pendakis This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often invoked to specify the economic function of the entrepreneur, this ostensibly descriptive category...

...Leigh Claire La Berge From Foucault's claim that we are now all entrepreneurs of ourselves to Antonio Negri's (and others') claim that we are now in a moment of the real subsumption of labor to capital, the status of labor has changed. What aesthetic approaches to the status of labor as commodity...

...-processing workers who work for them. In systems such as AMT, some people are employers, entrepreneurs, and programmers, and others simulate computation for them. The subjectivities of valorized workers are dependent on employing and distancing the labor of AMT workers. I take up these relations...

... today's landscape of social abstraction, we analyze subject positions under postcrisis conditions starting with that of the entrepreneur, trying to better understand the social and political possibilities foreclosed by contemporary subjectivity. If the contemporary subject is a derelict shell housing data...

... recovery, this article draws on long term ethnographic research in the global off grid solar industry to lay the grounds for an anthropology of humanitarianism and solar power. For over half a century, white engineers and entrepreneurs in the Global North have presented solar photovoltaics as a harbinger...

... and misrecognizes some key aspects of its organization and internal functioning. Attention to the latter—particularly the role played by what the author describes as “political entrepreneurs”—allows us to understand contemporary far-right agitation in Brazil as a machine to both stimulate and contain excess. Thus...

... to the cause of the entrepreneur as to reporting on the cool new gadgets and apps, the story of the struggles faced by Boomtrain comes across as an exception to a now gen- eral and increasingly widely accepted rule: the entrepreneur has become a model of how to be and behave, and not only in the world...

... . 2011 . “Harper Government Designates 2011 as Year of the Entrepreneur.” Press release , January 25 . www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/064.nsf/eng/06207.html . Jameson Fredric . 1984 . “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” New Left Review 1 , no. 146 : 53 – 92...

... it is they do. Central to this discourse is the jour- nalist as entrepreneur, an individual hero figure called upon to renew journalism’s relevance and reinvigorate stagnating business models. The most revered version of this figure in the public imaginary is the venture capital–backed start-up whiz...

... . Dean Jodi . 2010 . Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive . Malden, MA : Polity . Dilts Andrew . 2011 . “From ‘Entrepreneur of the Self’ to ‘Care of the Self’: Neoliberal Governmentality and Foucault's Ethics.” Foucault Studies 12 : 130 – 46 . Dyer...

... and entrepreneurs started to think about their replacement either by Israeli citizens or by newly arrived immigrants from the Soviet Union, or by workers recruited from Asia and Eastern Europe (Kemp and Raijman 2008). This reorganization of the Israeli labor market entailed a rethinking of the whole system...

... of scholars, most prominently Lauren Berlant and Randy Martin, have suggested a turn to what they each call the lateral. Against the future-oriented aspirations of the entrepreneur and the regimes of evaluation...

... . Gupta Akhil . 2015 . “ An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South .” Cultural Anthropology 30 , no. 4 : 555 – 68 . Howe Cymene . 2019 . Ecologics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . IEA . 2019 . Seven Women Entrepreneurs of Solar Energy . Paris : IEA...

... rigidity theoretically in the interest of society as a whole. The new technology carried with it the new plan under which the new business man, the entrepreneur, was given free rein. In its earliest manifestations in both England and Amer­ ica the new system manifested' all the sicknesses of infancy...

... of supplementary income still coming from the farm back home, he started his own business, which consists of a small truck with him in the driver’s seat. A typical activity in the age of exible accumu- lation this small business represents the merging of working-class status with entrepreneur status. He hangs...

... with each investigation. But generally, the Committee suggests, the historical investigator will now start not with documents but with a problem or a question perhaps a concept to be defined: what is the meaning of entrepreneur? social class? process of industrialization or with an hypothesis...

... contradictory forms. One might compare, for example, the investable and profitable lives of life entrepreneurs in various fields as well as high-value creative workers in Web 2.0 industries with the unvalorizable lives of unskilled women workers in global manufacturing factories in Mexico and China.15...

... profit. Weaver finds a number of plausible explanations for Trumbull s failure as an entrepreneur. Location was one of them, since inland Lebanon, unlike Boston and Providence, was hardly an ideal spot for managing ventures in overseas trade and shipping. Numerous also were Trumbull s ill-advised flyers...

... of our early entrepreneurs. The story of the Towers there was a Charlemagne Tower, Jr., who was an ambassador for eleven years has its seamy side, which Bridges neither minimizes nor condones. Tower money bought lawmakers in the Minnesota legislature, and the federal government canceled fraudulent...