1. Speed Limits: Out of Time in Organization Studies.
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O'DOHERTY †, DAMIAN
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ORGANIZATION , *ORGANIZATIONAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY , *INDUSTRIAL sociology , *CORPORATE culture , *CULTURE - Abstract
A screaming comes across the sky. Others glare with a vacant intensity. Solaris studies at the very same time that the world appears to be becoming one vast recording studio. Our cameras are in the process of dissolution and decay. This paper hurtles headlong into the Green Burning Car that is the crash of organization studies today. On the cusp of a promised new mode of study in organizational analysis we write on speed, attracting found objects, jump cuts, weird juxtapositions, and chance encounters in a 'pataphysical' dérive . As an exercise in sympathetic magic, or orgiastic ritual, we are able to exorcise here a number of ghosts in organization theory. Speed limits provide an occasion for shame: shame for its bombast and juvenility, its masculinity and narcissism; the end(s) of organization studies intrudes as event, a sacrifice for dreams of what might come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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