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driven to externalise the bulk of the effort

[...] As can be expected, agents – both collective and individual – caught up in relations of dependence and placed in situations where they are obliged to defend vital interests – economic survival for enterprises, keeping their jobs for employees – are driven to externalise the bulk of the effort…

—p.27 Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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hypostasis

the organisations fight in order to not disappear, which says something about the intensity with which they sometimes pursue their goals – the hypostasis of the organisations (‘they’) refers in fact, first of all, to the conatus of upper management.

—p.27 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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Fordism

The reorientation of corporate governance towards maximizing shareholder value – namely, the demand from ‘above’ to extract a rate of return on net capital far beyond the prevailing norms of Fordist capitalism

—p.25 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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shareholder value

The reorientation of corporate governance towards maximizing shareholder value – namely, the demand from ‘above’ to extract a rate of return on net capital far beyond the prevailing norms of Fordist capitalism

—p.25 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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antinomy

A false antinomy (between ‘calculation’ and ‘affects’) par excellence

footnote 21 (re: calm calculation vs affects)

—p.23 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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