A video recording (in six parts) of Bruno Latour’s lecture, entitled “What’s organizing? A Meditation on the Bust of Emilio Bootme,” delivered at the Université de Montréal on 21 May 2008, is now available on Youtube: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6. (H/t Sociologish.)
Archive for the ‘Organization studies’ Category
What’s organizing? Latour in Montreal
13 June 2009The Deleuzian ‘Spatium’ and its ‘Becoming’
23 January 2009An interesting ISRF seminar coming up at ISIG, LSE on 29 January 2009, exploring the connections between Heidegger and Deleuze in relation to technology and organisations:
Information Systems Research Forum
Rethinking Technological Change in Organizations: The Deleuzian ‘Spatium’ and its ‘Becoming’
Eleni Lamprou
ISIG, LSEThursday 29 January 2009
In this presentation, I wish to address the potential contribution of the ontology provided by the French process philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the study of technological change in organizations. In the first part of the presentation, the connections of Deleuze’s work to the work of Martin Heidegger are outlined, as I explore the concept of the ‘spatium’. The ‘spatium’ enfolds Deleuze’s understanding that the physical position of people and technological artefacts within space lends only a partial understanding of the manner in which they actually relate. In the second part, I seek to theorize the manner in which such relationships actually develop through elaborating on Deleuze’s conceptualization of ‘becoming’. Emphasis is placed on what is portrayed by Deleuze as the motor of the ‘becoming’ process, namely, the ‘event’. The ideas presented in this seminar are drawn from the theoretical framework of my doctoral dissertation.
