Learning to fly: inspiration and togetherness 1

In this paper, we use the concept of inspiration to explore solidarity and togetherness in organizational and non-organizational settings. We take issue with managerial interpretations that tend to singularly relate inspiration to motivation and draw on the insights of Wittgenstein, Irigaray, Serres and Sloterdijk to explain why forms of human togetherness or solidarity always have an airy or subtle quality often ignored in business literature but which might be nicely captured by the concept of inspiration. We also suggest that this concept should find a place in media-theoretical perspectives on organizations and that Sloterdijk’s work on ‘sphereology ’ is crucially important for the development of these perspectives. We end with some inconclusive and subversive musings on the anti-inspirational nature of business, professionalism and bureaucracy

Oswald Spenglers Ondergang van het Avondland

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The game of exemplarity: subjectivity, work and the impossible politics of purity

This paper develops and problematises the notion of the 'exemplary worker'--an idealised worker who is automated, compliant and mechanical. We suggest that the identity of such a worker emerges historically in a range of organisational, social and cultural discourses and provides a norm against which real workers are to be judged. Most recently, this includes the discourse of organisational culture; where worker commitment and managerial control are directed at people's values and beliefs. Our discussion starts with a review of Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener and uses this story to begin to tease out the logic of exemplarity and non-exemplarity. From there we examine other models for exemplary workers and then relate these insights to more contemporary discussions of knowledge work, empowerment, organisational culture and self-direction. We argue that despite these changes, there is much continuity in terms of worker exemplarity.Exemplary workers Organisational culture Subjectivity Trespassing

The guru's gusto: management fashion, performance and taste

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Wonders without wounds: On singularity, museum and organisation

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