Projective City Post
Mallon's well-worded arguments surrounding the projective city implies that Waterloo will serve as a test-bed for the innovation and information sector to attempt a community approach and integration of a tech region. Tackling some of the changing workforces and business mindsets requires trial and error and Waterloo will be one of the trial regions; Mallon places emphasis on this because the future is unpredictable and it is still unclear if Waterloo will accept the tech sector requirements.
Many connections were discovered to prove Mallon's argument as indicative of Boltanski and Chiapello's term and the establishment of the 'Projective City.' Mallon describes traditional models of work as fulfilling a job with an established set of particular skills, in contrast with modern workforces where the worker is more interested in developing their own tool belt than sustainability. Boltanski and Chiapello also discuss the two types of workers in the traditional and modern sense. They mention the difference between the two as 'great men (people)' and 'little men (people).' Great people liberate their tastes for thinking and acting, their talents are more closely related to their own reputation. Little people are regarded as under traditional contracts, being awarded for their labor with development, promotions, and guarded security (p.121-122). Mallon's argument is representative of Boltanski and Chiapello's by the way they describe the difference between workers attitudes and behaviors based on the difference in the workforce.
This being said, I argue that Castells' 'Networked Power' would enhance the individual actor in the information capitalism age. This being the power of some social actors over other social actors (assuming they are working on the same project). The projective city sacrifices justice of contribution for a heterarchical structure designed for inspiration and innovation between actors; this limits the amount of control one has over another actor and control of where the project's ideas may drift too. No one individual has a final say or to absorb the blame if something were to fail, this can be problematic; however, with 'networked power' more control with the same amount of inspiration can be identified.
Question: what do you feel is more influential to the development of the information capitalism age, the millennials wanting different forms of work or the institutional changes conforming to the tech sector?
Many connections were discovered to prove Mallon's argument as indicative of Boltanski and Chiapello's term and the establishment of the 'Projective City.' Mallon describes traditional models of work as fulfilling a job with an established set of particular skills, in contrast with modern workforces where the worker is more interested in developing their own tool belt than sustainability. Boltanski and Chiapello also discuss the two types of workers in the traditional and modern sense. They mention the difference between the two as 'great men (people)' and 'little men (people).' Great people liberate their tastes for thinking and acting, their talents are more closely related to their own reputation. Little people are regarded as under traditional contracts, being awarded for their labor with development, promotions, and guarded security (p.121-122). Mallon's argument is representative of Boltanski and Chiapello's by the way they describe the difference between workers attitudes and behaviors based on the difference in the workforce.
This being said, I argue that Castells' 'Networked Power' would enhance the individual actor in the information capitalism age. This being the power of some social actors over other social actors (assuming they are working on the same project). The projective city sacrifices justice of contribution for a heterarchical structure designed for inspiration and innovation between actors; this limits the amount of control one has over another actor and control of where the project's ideas may drift too. No one individual has a final say or to absorb the blame if something were to fail, this can be problematic; however, with 'networked power' more control with the same amount of inspiration can be identified.
Question: what do you feel is more influential to the development of the information capitalism age, the millennials wanting different forms of work or the institutional changes conforming to the tech sector?
Hi Ken,
ReplyDeleteGood question really got me thinking...
When discussing what is more influential to the development of the information capitalism age, I believe the institutional changes that are conforming to the tech sector are more influence as without these changes millennial's would not be aware of the different forms of work as the tech sector is a test-bed them. Especially when looking at the development of the information capitalism age, institutional changes are unavoidable as companies need to compete with others and constantly keep changing and innovating.