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Social Immune Mechanisms: Luhmann and Potentialization Technologies
Contemporary discourses of management are full of encouragements to âexpect the unexpectedâ and to celebrate âthe future of the futureâ. Many new public managerial technologies of change â such as steering Labs, future games, and managerial performance arts - promise the co- creative âpotentialisationâ of employees, citizens and organisations. This paper approaches such potentialisation technologies as immune mechanisms which serve to protect the social system from itself. From a perspective inspired by autopoietic systems theory, potentialisation technologies provide autoimmunity by problematising institutional structures and providing âanti-structuralâ space-times to facilitate transformation. There is a price to pay for this immune function, however, since these immune mechanisms cannot discriminate between productive and unproductive structures. By dissolving the certainty of the expectations that underlie the connectivity of diverse organisational operations, they risk harming the welfare systems that host them
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The emotional organization and the problem of authenticity: The romantic, the pedagogic, the therapeutic and the ludic as liminal media of transition
Max Weber excluded the phenomenon of emotions from the idea of rational bureaucracy. Modern European organizational theories are on the other hand almost obsessed by emotions and especially affect. Emotion reentered organizational theory around the limited topic of âemotional laborâ, but today passion is generally praised as a driver in successful organizations. An important element here is the demand upon passionate employees to install the organization as their significant other. To the extent that they rely on this new concept of themselves and their employees, organizations become dependent upon the authenticity of the âself-enrolmentâ expected of each employee. In the discursive field of organization we therefore see a number of new communicative media which centre upon emotion and upon helping the organization to attribute authenticity and inauthenticity to employees. This paper also makes the case that these media are liminal in nature, and extend beyond the use of discursive symbolism in a Sisyphian effort to reach the authentic emotional âheartâ of each employee
Selvskabt forvaltning:forvaltningspolitikkens og centralforvaltningens udvikling i Danmark 1900-1994
Hvem er Yum-Yum? Tegneseriestaten i svøb
Artiklen analyserer kampagnen: âLeg dig sundâ, som er tilrettelagt af Fødevarestyrelsen og Sundhedsstyrelsen. âLeg dig sundâ retter sig mod isĂŚr udsatte familier og deres vilje, viden og handlekapacitet til at leve sundt. Centrum i artiklen er kampagnens kobling til leg. Hvordan kan det vĂŚre, at leg stĂĽr sĂĽ centralt i kampagnen? Hvad har leg og kampagne med hinanden at gøre? Hvad har sundhed og leg med hinanden at gøre? Et centralt trĂŚk ved kampagnen er, at den pĂĽ ĂŠn gang vil og ikke vil vĂŚre en kampagne, pĂĽ ĂŠn gang vil og ikke vil vĂŚre styring. Det hĂŚnger sammen med, at den iagttager modstand blandt de udsatte familier bĂĽde i forhold til styring og i forhold til sundhedsfremme. Samtidigt vil man ikke anerkende familierne som modstandere. Man vil hellere gĂĽ uden om modstanden i en erkendelse af, at sundhedsfremme virker bedst, nĂĽr den ikke ligner en sĂĽdan, og styring styrer mest, nĂĽr den ikke er tilrettelagt som styring. Leg ses her som et alternativ. Artiklen ender i en diskussion af hvilken stat, der kommer til syne i en sĂĽdan praksis. MĂĽske er det en tegneseriestat? Det er en stat, der ikke sĂŚtter grĂŚnser for sig selv overfor borgeren, for hvorfor skulle man beskytte borgerne mod leg? ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Niels Ă
kerstrøm Andersen: Who is Yum-Yum? The Cartoon State in the Making This article analyzes the campaign âPlay Yourself Healthyâ. The campaign is organized by the Danish Food Agency and the Danish Health Agency and focuses on socially âweakâ families in an attempt to influence their will, knowledge and capacity to act in order to live healthy lives. The article concentrates on the link between campaigning and playing. How has play become so important to the campaign? What are the connections between playing and developing campaigns? What are the connections between health and play? The campaign wants to be both a campaign and not a campaign, both steering and not steering. This is because of the resistance among the target families to steering and health promotion. No one wants to identify the families as opponents, however, so the authorities work around their resistance by presuming that health promotion works best if it does not look like promotion, and that steering works best when it is not arranged as such. Play is seen here as an alternative, and the article hopes to foster discussion about the form of the state that emerges in the campaign practices. It offers the hypothesis that the ânew stateâ does not limit itself in the means it uses to govern citizens. After all, why should it protect citizens against playing? Key words: Steering, campaigning, health promotion, resistance, media, play
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