{"id":181,"date":"2006-04-07T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T09:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-04-07T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T09:43:01","slug":"blabla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up of Funky Business by maverick Swedish business gurus Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom. The publication itself is a bit confusing as the hard cover and soft cover (the one I read) have the same title but different subtitels, it is not clear whether both books are the same or not.<br \/>\n<iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=workvitamins-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0273687476&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\"> &lt;p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; Anyway, fantastic reading. Walter Benjamin once wrote that he wanted to create a book created entirely out of quotations. Karaoke Capitalism does just that as &#8220;an attempt of making a horizontal analysis &#8211; linking changes in many different areas and walks of life together so that they form a tapestry of our topsy times&#8221;.  In music this approach would be called &#8220;plunderphonics&#8221;, the writers mention that they used over 5000 post-its in creating this book-puzzle.&lt;br \/&gt; Takeshi Miura and I tried something similar when we created the online book made out of quotations and collage for the Miami Bienale: &lt;a mce_href=&#8221;http:\/\/office301.dyndns.org&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; title=&#8221;the future of the office&#8221; xhref=&#8221;http:\/\/office301.dyndns.org&#8221;&gt;the future of the office&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br \/&gt; Karaoke Capitalism summarizes what WorkVitamins is all about: due to increasing individualization companies need to create an emotional experience not only for our customers but also to attract and retain staff.&lt;br \/&gt; Favourite quote: Just like firms can grow the business model, companies can leverage the business mood.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fantastic reading. Walter Benjamin once wrote that he wanted to create a book created entirely out of quotations. Karaoke Capitalism does just that as &#8220;an attempt of making a horizontal analysis &#8211; linking changes in many different areas and walks of life together so that they form a tapestry of our topsy times&#8221;.\u00a0 In music this approach would be called &#8220;plunderphonics&#8221;, the writers mention that they used over 5000 post-its in creating this book-puzzle.<br \/>\nTakeshi Miura and I tried something similar when we created the online book made out of quotations and collage for the Miami Bienale: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"the future of the office\" href=\"http:\/\/office301.dyndns.org\" class=\"broken_link\">the future of the office<\/a>.<br \/>\nKaraoke Capitalism summarizes what WorkVitamins is all about: due to increasing individualization companies need to create an emotional experience not only for our customers but also to attract and retain staff.<br \/>\nFavourite quote: Just like firms can grow the business model, companies can leverage the business mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up of Funky Business by maverick Swedish business gurus Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom. The publication itself is a bit confusing as the hard cover and soft cover (the one I read) have the same title but different subtitels, it is not clear whether both books are the same or not. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; Anyway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}