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The Death of the Expert
Leroy White,Ann Taket +1 more
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This paper presents arguments following a postmodern route which views the world as text, where all phenomena and events can be regarded as text and, as such, subject to narrative analysis.Abstract:
The texts of OR are littered, explicitly and implicitly, with myths about the ‘expert’ that are taken for self-evident truths. We would like to challenge these. This paper presents arguments following a postmodern route which views the world as text, where all phenomena and events can be regarded as text and, as such, subject to narrative analysis. Narrative analysis explodes and disperses text to reveal forms and codes according to which meanings are possible. The paper will introduce a case study drawing on our experiences in community OR, which we aim to use to demonstrate this approach.read more
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari +1 more
TL;DR: The first volume of the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia as mentioned in this paper, is widely regarded as the single most brilliant work of Continental philosophy of the last forty years, together with the second volume, A Thousand Plateaus.
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Governing economic life
Peter Miller,Nikolas Rose +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that governmentality has a characteristically "programmatic" form, and that it is inextricably bound to the invention and evaluation of technologies that seek to improve government power.