Sub-theme 40: Living the Critical Life: Unreason, Nonreflection and Irresponsibility

Convenors:
Garance Marechal, University of Liverpool, UK
Peter Fleming, City University London, UK
Bent Meier Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, PIERCE-912
Emergences, Transformations and Irresponsibility
Chair: Garance Marechal
Sébastien Mena, Jukka Rintamäki, Peter Fleming and André Spicer
On the forgetting of corporate irresponsibility
Gazi Islam, Maria Laura Toraldo and Gianluigi Mangia
Ambivalent performances: Community, critique and the deployment of emotional energy at music festivals
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, PIERCE-912
Surveillance, Madness and Unreason
Chair: Peter Fleming
Lauren Schrock
'Awakening' to organizational dystopia: Surrealism and art analysis as means for organization research
Bent Meier Sørensen and Kaspar Villadsen
Skinny dipping with yoursuperior: How to resist a rebellious boss?
Michelle Kweder
Comedic news workers: Exposing American madness and unreason
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, PIERCE-912
- Round Table -
Chair: Peter Fleming and Bent Sorensen
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, PIERCE-912
Dogma, Creativity, Love and other Life stuff...
Chair: Garance Marechal
Bent Meier Sørensen, Lena Olaison and Christian Garmann Johnsen
'This phone would be even fairer if...': Organizing micro-political struggles over sustainability and entrepreneurship
Justine Grønbæk Pors
Ironic love and other innovations in contemporary public policy
Eric Faÿ
Organisations, how could life disrupt reason, responsibility and reflexivity? A Henryan and Lacanian perspective
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, PIERCE-912
Measurement, Mindfulness and Modern Times
Chair: Peter Fleming
Stéphane Debenedetti, Isabelle Huault and Véronique Perret
Of the emancipatory power of non-intentionality in 'Modern Times'.
Beata Sanz, Henriett Primecz and Katalin Bácsi
Dressage and suppression – The true nature of performance measurement systems. Ethnographic analysis of a performance measurement project
Gazi Islam and Marie Holm
New spirit(ualities) of capitalism: Mindfulness and the dualities of humanistic management
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, PIERCE-912
Sanguinity, Strategy and Silence
Chair: Peter Fleming and Bent Sorensen
Jukka Rintamäki
Manufacturing memories, changing organizational pasts
D. Derya Özdemir Kaya and Erol Saglam
Organizing for peace: Towards a psychoanalytic reflexivity in organisational research
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, PIERCE-912
Recognition, Rivalry and Murk
Chair: Garance Marechal, Peter Fleming and Bent Sorensen
Youcef Bousalham, youcef Bousalham, Youcef Bousalham, Youcef Bousalham and Bénédicte Vidaillet
When alternative organizations compete together: The case of the French mutual insurance sector for students
Stephen Linstead
The mysterious death and critical afterlife of Jimmie Miller: The political aesthetics of desertion and disappearance