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It is a mechanism of self hood and subject formation that begins from the premise that there is no one to count on, no one who can do anything for you other than you yourself.
This certainly seems to sum up the attitude of a lot of entrepreneurs -- and seems to describe the "common sense" reality of their endeavours. Do you think that this describes your reality?
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Governments cannot be entrepreneurial, nor can NGOs.
This is a contested statement. Certainly some governments and NGOs would say the exact opposite!
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The demand to produce ever more is part of a system in which an imperative exists to enjoy and to become ever more.
remember this when we deal with the latter weeks that highlight themes of self-actualization, well-being, and wellness. Are we ever content with what we have? What does it mean to be constantly striving for more? Does entrepreneurship encourage only this (or anything approximating a sense of "balance" also...)?
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hould we not welcome the cracks that might appear in the operations of biopolitics at its fullest oper-ation?
Even with all of the criticisms he's outlined, Szeman ends on a conditional but hopeful note. This reminds me of a song lyric:
Leonard Cohen sang "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in."
Which leads me to my final note...
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creating an enterprise and creating a self is the same activ-ity.
This strikes me as really important for my vision of the course. Part of what we're going to be examining this term is how this idea of "the entrepreneurial self" is constituted. A passion project or a side-hustle isn't the only thing an entrepreneurial person is building (or working on). They're also constructing themselves...
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The status of entrepreneurship as a new common sense of subjectivity and economic practice
Remember at the beginning of the article (when Szeman says "we are all entrepreneurs now") (p. 472)? He doesn't mean that we are all creating business start-ups. Rather, he's suggesting that there is a spirit-of-the-times wherein entrepreneurship has become this new common-sense reality. It is both a dominant way of thinking about how we ought to act, AND an informal rulebook for how economies (and other forms of practice) ought to function too... In other words, entrepreneurship isn't just about undertaking profit-making (and risk-inducing) economic practices in capitalism. Rather, it's about undertaking a new subjectivity, a new identity when it comes to how we think of ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we respond to our wider social, cultural, political, and economic environment.
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the entrepreneur is the neo-liberal subject par excellence
remember this term (neoliberal) for two weeks hence!
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The figure of the entrepreneur embodies the values and attributes that are celebrated as essential for the economy to operate smoothly and for the contemporary human being to flourish.
remember this rhetorical nod to "flourishing" (which we'll revisit in earnest in the 2nd or 3rd last week of the semester...)
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I love this comment. It links brilliantly to next week's content...
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the entrepreneur is abstracted and universal-ized into a model for all citizens
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s is, in the main, inevitable in the new world of the devices and gadgets that increasingly mediate our lives. What made this article about Boomtrain distin
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definitely stay tuned in week 3 (when we talk about the "auto-preneur") as the success vs. hardship struggle becomes paramount. Also, passion projects are the very root of "unconventional" entrepreneurs (perhaps even more so than "conventional" ones...)
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This is the "modus operandi" for the whole course! What does this mean (for you)?
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Gary Vee is a fine example! You've also linked perfectly to next week (as we idolize such figures, making them into heroes of either capitalist achievement or pinnacles of success in other fields (like sports -- some of which aren't necessarily roads to financial success, like a lot of Olympic pursuits...).
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To quote a silly Netflix series about baking escapades, you "nailed it"
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- May 2020
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A conversation layer
Hello from Brock University
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The rule of Zeus and less befriend mankind.
Tada!
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Zeus
Great Zeus!
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