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Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal. |
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Albert Einstein
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Rosenberg,
p. 56) | |
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community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.
But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put
knowledge to work--on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself--it must be organized for constant change. It must
be organized for innovation; and innovation, as the Austro-American economist Joseph
Schumpeter (1883-1950) said, is "creative destruction." It must be organized for systematic abandonment of the
established, the customary, the familiar, the comfortable--whether products, services, and processes, human and social relationships,
skills, or organizations themselves. |
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Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 57 | |
| Now reference and reality disappear altogether, and even meaning--the
signified--is problematized. We are left with that pure and random play of signifiers that we call postmodernism, which no longer produces
monumental works of the modernist type but ceaselessly reshuffles the fragments of preexistent texts, the building blocks of older
cultural and social production, in some new and heightened bricolage: metabooks which cannibalize other books, metatexts which collate
bits of other texts. . . . |
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Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham,
NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1991), p. 96 | |
Creative Destruction
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