Subject: SPOON-ANN: critical dialogues on organization: ephemera ***call for contributions*** Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:30:50 +0100 [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] STANDARD APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *** Call for contributions *** - ephemera: critical dialogues on organization ephemera: - is a new electronic forum for developing and extending discussions of critical perspectives on organization. - is transdisciplinary and encourages contributions from a broad spectrum of academics, researchers, activists, practitioners, employees and other members of organizations. - invites critical discussions of a range of issues relating to organizations and organizing in their widest senses. - encourages a focus on the ephemeral nature of the present, emphasising change, transition, possibility, becoming, movement, difference, transience, mortality, variation, engagement, intervention, metamorphosis. - provides a platform for a critique of present modes of organization, but also for discussion of the meaning of critique and for the development and interrogation of current critical discourses on organization. - offers a forum to bring together a variety of perspectives in productive dialogue and critical questioning of the nature of contemporary organization. ephemera encourages contributions in a variety of formats including academic articles, book and film reviews, field notes, interviews, photo essays and other experimental modes of representation. Contributions are invited on a range of themes dealing with organization in its widest sense, including: what is critique?, gender, race, disability, sex and sexuality, bodies and embodiment, marx today, critical realism, globalization, feminist theory, postcolonial and subaltern studies, strategy, labour process theory, poststructuralism, surveillance, knowledge and information, ideology, ontology, epistemology, methodology, technology, cyborgs and cyborganization, post-humanism, time, space, architecture, philosophy of organization, chaos and complexity, biology and genetics, popular culture, consumption, collective action, political protest, etc. The first issue of ephemera will be published online 1st February 2001. Editorial and advisory panel: Steffen G. Böhm, Gibson Burrell, Rebecca Dale, Keith Hoskin, Campbell Jones, Chris Land, Karen Legge, Jim Storbeck, David Wilson For more information and an extended call for contributions, please visit our website at: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/call _________________________________________________________ Steffen G. Böhm editor ephemera: critical dialogues on organization ‘All that is solid melts into air’ http://www.ephemeraweb.org ephemera is free and is supported by Warwick Business School
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