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Art as a Form of Knowledge: The Implications for Critical Management
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The Frankfurt School as mentioned in this paper is linked with the school of thought called the Frankfurt School, which was founded at the Institut fur Sozialforschung (the Institute for Social Research).Abstract:
Theodor Adorno (1970/1997) declared that art was a form of knowledge. In a somewhat related vein, his critical theorist colleague Herbert Marcuse (1956/1998) characterized art as a mode of cognition that is an alternative to positivism. The work of these two scholars is linked with the school of thought called ‘The Frankfurt School’. Famous for its notion and development of ‘critical theory’, the Frankfurt School’s work was carried out initially at the Institut fur Sozialforschung (the Institute for Social Research). This Institute was established in, but financially independent of, Frankfurt University. Founded in February 1923, a number of the scholars associated with the Institute found themselves drawn to art and the aesthetics as arenas in which alternative ways of thinking and ‘seeing’ were possible. For this group of scholars, in many ways, authentic art represented a ‘Great Refusal’ (Marcuse, 1956/1998, p. 149) against totalizing forms of logic.read more
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Finding Form: Looking at the Field of Organizational Aesthetics
Steven S. Taylor,Hans Hansen +1 more
TL;DR: A review of organizational aesthetics in terms of content and method can be found in this article, where the authors suggest four broad categories of organizational aesthetic research: intellectual analysis of instrumental issues, artistic form used to look at instrumental issues; artistic analysis of aesthetic issues; and artistic form applied to aesthetic issues.
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Discourse and Audience: Organizational Change as Multi‐Story Process
David A. Buchanan,Patrick Dawson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that research narratives are necessarily selective and sieved through particular discourses that represent different ways of engaging in research, and they are purposefully chosen to influence target audiences, but this subjective crafting is often hidden behind a cloak of putative objectivity in the written and oral presentations of academic research findings.
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Managing Organizational Change: A Philosophies of Change Approach
Fiona Graetz,Aaron C.T. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a multi-philosophy approach that applies an interactive mix of continuity and change, which helps to guard against complacency and inertia and underpins an organization's capacity both to exploit and explore.
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Uncovering the Semiotic in Organizational Aesthetics
TL;DR: In this article, the utility of a semiotically grounded approach to the analysis of organizational aesthetics is illustrated, based on a critique of the tendency to romanticize the notion of idealism.
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Playing and Reality
TL;DR: Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living as mentioned in this paper.
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Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer,Theodor W. Adorno +1 more
TL;DR: The Dialectic of Enlightenment as mentioned in this paper is one of the most celebrated and often cited works of modern social philosophy, and it has been identified as the keystone of the 'Frankfurt School', of which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were the leading members.
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Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Stephen Regan,Fredric Jameson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the final, extraordinary flowering of a high modernist impulse which is spent and exhausted with Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logic.
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The Society of the Spectacle
TL;DR: The Society of the Spectacle as mentioned in this paper is one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s, and it has been widely used in the literature since.