Science Fiction and Organization 1st Edition by Matthew Higgins, Geoff Lightfoot, Martin Parker, Warren Smith 0415215889 9780415215886

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ISBN 10: 0415215889 

ISBN 13: 9780415215886

Author: Matthew Higgins, Geoff Lightfoot, Martin Parker, Warren Smith

Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been largely ignored in writing on organization theory. This international collection is the first book of its kind to explore how science fiction can enrich studies of organization by drawing on perspectives across the arts and social sciences.

Table of contents:

Part I: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
1. ‘Give Me Your Mirrorshades’: Science Fiction ‘Methodology’ Meets the Social and Organizational Sciences
Introduction
SF – Provenance and Conceptions
The Attraction of Method
The Domain of SF
Social Sciences and SF
Conclusion
References

2. Science Fiction and the Making of the Laser
Masers and Lasers
Faith and Optimism
Conclusions
Notes
References

Part II: Mirror, Mirror
3. Metropolis, Maslow and the Axis Mundi
Metropolis
Thought and Organizational Structure
Myth and the Axis Mundi
The Humanists, Structure and Compassion
Summary
Notes
References

4. The Rape of the Machine Metaphor
Introduction
A Kind of Climax
The Story: An Introduction
Metaphor As a Cyborgian Construct
Metaphor and Action
Conclusions
References

5. Organizing Men Out In Joanna Russ’s the Female Man and Fay Weldon’s the Cloning of Joanna May
The Cloning of Joanna May
The Female Man
Cyborg Monsters and Inappropriate/d Others
Conclusion
Notes
References

6. Drowned Giants: Science Fiction and Consumption Utopias
Science Fiction and Mass Consumer Culture
The Drowned Giant: An Anatomy of Apathy
Commodification and End of Magnificent Illusions
The Future(s) of the Future
References

7. Spectacle and Inter-Spectacle In the Matrix and Organization Theory
Spectacle and Inter-Spectacle Theory
Sci-Fi Films and OT
Inter-Spectacle Theory
The Matrix As Inter-Spectacle
Organizational Implications of the Matrix and Inter-Spectacle
Conclusions
Notes
References

Part III: Is There In Truth No Beauty?
8. Reading Star Trek: Imagining, Theorizing, and Reflecting On Organizational Discourse and Practice
Introduction
Star Trek –1960s Style
Reflections
Notes
References

9. From the Borgias to the Borg (And Back Again): Rethinking Organizational Futures
Introduction
A Search for Origins: The Renascent Human
Ameliorating the Threat of Radical Otherness 1: ST:TNG’s Response to Borganization from ‘Q, Who?’ to ‘First Contact’
Assimilating the ‘Other’: Seven of Nine and Renaissance Humanism As Patriarchal Authority
Ameliorating the Threat of Radical Otherness 2: Technology and Organization Theory
The Borg and Knowledge Management
Ameliorating the Threat of Radical Otherness 3: Knowledge Management’s Retreat to Liberal Humanism
From Borgia to Borg to Cyborg: Toward an Anti-Humanist Organization Theory
Notes
References

10. Of Philip K. Dick, Reflexivity and Shifting Realities: Organizing (Writing) In Our Post-Industrial Society
Philip K. Dick, Organization Studies and Me
Modes of Organizing, Modes of Theorizing and This Thing Called Reality
Coming to Grips With Philip K. Dick’s Shifting Realities
On Dick’s Writing Techniques: The Writing That Cannot Be Written
Dick and the Discursive Universe of Organization Studies
Notes
References

11. ‘I Am a Man, and Nothing Human Is Alien to Me’: Alienation and Freakishness
Aliens and Alienation
The Alien As Freak
The Four-Part Alien Trilogy
‘That’s It Man, Game Over Man, Game Over, Man! Game Over!’
Coda
References

Part IV: The Gamesters of Triskelion
12. ‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman: Digesting science Fiction
Ticktockmen and Jellybeans
Digesting Science Fiction
Science Fiction and Indigestion
Notes
References

13. Cyberpunk Management
On Winning the Race
The Goddess Profit
It’s ShowTime
E-Security and the Territories
Conclusion
References

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