The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that ...is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life-how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls "the specter of uselessness" haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.
In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an "iron cage." Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of "reform."
Left Atrial Scar Formation After Contact Force‐Guided AF Ablation
Background
Catheter contact force (CF) is an important determinant of radiofrequency (RF) lesion quality during pulmonary vein ...isolation (PVI). Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows good visualization of ablation lesions.
Objective
This study describes a new technique to examine the relationship between CF during RF delivery and LGE signal intensity (SI) following PVI.
Methods
Six patients underwent PVI for paroxysmal AF using a CF‐sensing catheter and following preprocedural MRI. During ablation, CF‐time integral (FTI) and position was documented for each RF application. All patients underwent repeat LGE MRI 3 months later. The LGE SIs were projected onto a MRI‐derived 3‐dimensional left atrial (LA) shell and a CF map was generated on the same shell. The entire LA surface was divided into 5 mm2 segments. Force and LGE maps were fused and compared for each 5 mm2 zone. An effective lesion was defined when MRI‐defined scar occupied >90% of a 5 mm2 analysis zone.
Results
Acute PVI was achieved in 100%. Two hundred sixty‐eight RF lesions were tagged on the LA shells and given a lesion‐specific FTI. Increasing FTI correlated with increased LGE SI, which was greater when the FTI was > 1,200 gs. Below an FTI of 1,200 gs, an increment in the FTI resulted in only a small increment in scar, whereas above 1,200 gs an increment in the FTI resulted in a large change of scar.
Conclusion
There is a correlation between FTI and LGE SI in MRI following AF ablation. Real‐time FTI maps are feasible and may prevent inadequate lesion formation.
The Craftsman Sennett, Richard
2008, 2008-10-01
eBook
Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than "skilled manual labor," Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a ...craftsman's work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse.
"One of the most important books of the twentieth century."-Gideon Lewis-Kraus,New Yorker
Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century,The Lonely Crowd opened ...exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new introduction illuminates the ways in which Riesman's analysis of a middle class obsessed with how others lived still resonates in the age of social media. "Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live."-Todd Gitlin
Plánování čistých měst Richard Sennett
Sociální studia,
07/2016, Letnik:
3, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
V tomto textu, který je překladem jedné z kapitol jeho práce The Uses of Disorder (1970), Sennett odkazem na konkrétní příklad podporuje tezi o poklesu komplexity sociálních forem v moderní ...společnosti v důsledku narůstající komplexity a nadměrného řádu, jež se projevuje mimo jiné ztrátou personálních postojů občanů a jejich možností ustavovat fungující komunity. Oním příkladem jsou mocenské vztahy vtělené do procesu městského plánování. Původ moderního urbánního diskurzu spatřuje v rekonstrukci města Paříže, jež probíhala pod vedením barona Haussmanna na konci 19. století jakožto artikulace potřeb rozvíjejícího se průmyslového světa. K hlavním předpokladům této urbánní tradice patří: centralizované plánování celého města a předem určené sociální využití města. Sennett ukazuje na historickou podmíněnost těchto předpokladů, která vedla k dominanci expertního vědění nad potřebami aktuálních obyvatel. V této tradici ústí autorita do pasivity a ne-participace, eliminujíce rozptylující prvky: chyby, anarchii, diverzitu nebo tvůrčí nepořádek.
The sense of touch Sennett, Richard
Western capitalism in transition,
04/2018
Book Chapter
For musicians, the sense of touch defines our physical experience of art: lips applied to reed, fingers pushing down keys or strings. It might seem that the more easily we touch, the better we play, ...but facility is only half the story. A pianist or violinist has constantly to explore resistance, either in the instrument or in the playing body. This effort, I want to suggest, says something also about ‘being in touch’ in everyday life.
Like every cellist, I learned about touch through mastering movements like vibrato. Vibrato is the rocking motion of the left hand on a string,
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