Barry Turner for the Ages of Living Dangerously: Risk, `New Capitalisms', and Life in the Coming Century
探讨巴里·特纳关于风险与保险的研究，分析未来组织生活中的‘新兴新资本主义’，并将风险视为理解信息时代、后现代主义等新纪元的关键概念。
This essay explores some implications of Barry Turner's work on risk and insurance, both in its symbolic and substantive aspects, in relation to analyses of organizational life in the future. I develop the paper's central propositions by focusing on `emerging new capitalism' as articulated in Steinberg's (1993) potential `new ages': information age, postmodernism, global interdependence, new mercantilism, corporate control, flexible specialization, new social movements, and new fundamentalisms. I discuss `risk', and Turner's conception of it among others, as a new epistemological and political space for analyzing these new ages. Finally, I reconsider `risk' as the metaphor of choice for productive life in the coming century, since it allows for both on-going construction and deconstruction of possible worlds within the uncertainties that the new capitalisms might bring about.