Ideologies of time: How elite corporate actors engage the future
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 186-204
ISSN: 1461-7323
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In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 186-204
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 468-482
ISSN: 1461-7323
Considering the worsening climate crisis, we argue that our present conditions require a particular approach to the past in order to disrupt current intellectual trajectories. We enrol Walter Benjamin's concept of history, via the writings of Svetlana Alexievich and Margaret Atwood, with the aim of bringing a criticality to the present to make us reconsider the ways we think about and act in our present world. Based on Alexievich and Atwood's work, we develop research conceptualizations of forgotten and alternative histories to open up a space to consider a future climate-changed world beyond the dominant tropes of inevitable dystopian apocalypse and clever technological adaptation. We offer the concept of 'hope without optimism' in encouraging management and organization studies scholars to develop a discipline fit for the Anthropocene.
In: Culture and organization: the official journal of SCOS, Band 19, Heft 5, S. 396-412
ISSN: 1477-2760
In: Culture and organization: the official journal of SCOS, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 87-90
ISSN: 1477-2760
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 153-172
ISSN: 1461-7323
Our purpose in this article is to relate the real movements in the economy during 2008 to the 'image-work' of financial institutions. Over the period January—December 2008 we collected 241 separate advertisements from 61 financial institutions published in the Financial Times. Reading across the ensemble of advertisements for themes and evocative images provides an impression of the financial imaginaries created by these organizations as the global financial crisis unfolded. In using the term 'phantasmagoria' we move beyond its colloquial sense of a set of strange images designed to dazzle towards the more technical connotation used by Rancière (2004) who suggested that words and images can offer a trace of an overall determining set-up if they are torn from their obviousness so they become phantasmagoric figures. The key phantasmagoric figure we identify here is that of the financial institution as timeless, immortal and unchanging; a coherent and autonomous entity amongst other actors. This notion of uniqueness belies the commonality of thinking which precipitated the global financial crisis as well as the limited capacity for control of financial institutions in relation to market events. It also functions as a powerful naturalizing force, making it hard to question certain aspects of the recent period of 'capitalism in crisis'.
In: Culture and organization: the official journal of SCOS, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 181-183
ISSN: 1477-2760
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 5, S. 671-680
ISSN: 1461-7323
Can one sell any positive value of Trump's presidency to an academic audience? The editors of this special series invited polemical essays, but maybe asking readers to consider the merit of Trump is going a little too far? We put forward the argument here that as critical scholars we simply cannot allow ourselves to be swept up in the bien-pensant tide of Trump-trashing, which has almost become as addictive as the current reality-TV quality of the US presidency itself. As Roitman has suggested in a different context, 'the concept of crisis is crucial to the "how" of thinking otherwise'. Thus, we believe it crucial to seize the crisis of the Trump presidency as an opportunity to activate the utopian imagination, rather than an occasion for moralizing judgements or regressive nostalgia which would effectively mean aligning ourselves with the neo-liberal consensus many of us spent our careers critiquing. We further argue that Fredric Jameson's notion of the dialectic may refresh our critical conceptual arsenal in these disorienting times. This dialectical approach is meant to alter not only how we see reality, but also what we think we can do with it. It enables us to see the traumatic event of Trump's election as providing a form and space through which contradictions that have been locked firmly into place in our socioeconomic set-up over the past few decades have become much more malleable, partly because of their increased visibility.
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In: Culture and organization: the official journal of SCOS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 89-97
ISSN: 1477-2760
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 743-744
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 748-756
ISSN: 1461-7323
Professor Michael Mann is one of the world's leading climate scientists and best known for his work on historical temperature trends and hemispherical climate reconstructions, including the iconic 'hockey stick' graph of long-term temperature variations. As a result of his work, Professor Mann became a central target of criticism from conservative politicians, industry groups and the climate change denial industry. The following edited interview was conducted in October 2012.
In: Springer eBook Collection
As if one could provide an introduction to Organization 2666 -- Bolaño versus Business Strategy -- Reading as theorizing. A conjecture based on The Savage Detectives' mode of inquiry -- The key to our century and the mystery at Port-Vendres -- The absent witness: Bolaño's 2666 as a case of fictional accountability -- Living, reading, and dying in the didactic void: Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and organized literature -- Encounters with the undead: Reading the Other(s) in Bolaño's 2666 -- Machismo as a Mode of Organizing -- Bolaño's Black Smoke: The Revelation of Horror in Organization.
In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 34, Heft 10, S. 1427-1444
ISSN: 1741-3044
Contemporary organization is increasingly understood as contingent and improvisational - and immersed in complex and shadowy realities where customary assumptions about the space and time of organization no longer hold. This Special Issue invites organization studies into an ambivalent space of sites/sights in organization, the double-play of this modest conceptual proposal necessary in order to open up the complex folding of the epistemological and the ontological in organization today. In this introduction we seek to establish and position a distinctive approach to what we claim to be 'white spaces' in organization. We show that any adequate treatment of these white spaces compels a significant breaching of the disciplinary norms of organization studies. Our argument derives from a consideration of a range of recently emerging concepts and analyses in the study of organization, all of which are suggestive of crisis and of emerging (anti-)forms of organization. This edition of Organization Studies publishes six papers and three originally commissioned book reviews that help advance this emerging problematic in organization, and which in their various ways extend our understanding of possible organizing futures.