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9780415215886

Science Fiction and Organization

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415215886

  • ISBN10:

    0415215889

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-10-12
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This international collection explores how science fiction can enrich studies of organization. This book draws upon perspectives from across the arts and social sciences, encompassing innovative approaches to both organization theory and the reading of science fiction.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii
Introduction: more amazing tales 1(12)
Matthew Higgins
PART I For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky* 13(28)
`Give me your mirrorshades': science fiction `methodology' meets the social and organizational sciences
15(16)
David McHugh
Science fiction and the making of the laser
31(10)
Christopher Haley
PART II Mirror, mirror* 41(82)
Metropolis, Maslow and the Axis Mundi
43(18)
James M. Tolliver
Daniel E. Coleman
The rape of the machine metaphor
61(12)
Nanette Monin
John Monin
Organizing men out in Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Fay Weldon's The Cloning of Joanna May
73(17)
Maria Aline Ferreira
Drowned giants: science fiction and consumption utopias
90(11)
James A. Fitchett
David A. Fitchett
Spectacle and inter-spectacle in The Matrix and organization theory
101(22)
David Boje
PART III Is there in truth no beauty?* 123(68)
Reading Star Trek: imagining, theorizing, and reflecting on organizational discourse and practice
125(18)
Donncha Kavanagh
Kieran Keohane
Carmen Kuhling
From the Borgias to the Borg (and back again): rethinking organizational futures
143(17)
Chris Land
and Martin Corbett
Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities: organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society
160(17)
Christian De Cock
`I am a man, and nothing human is alien to me': alienation and freakishness
177(14)
Warren Smith
PART IV The gamesters of Triskelion* 191(24)
`Repent Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman: digesting science fiction
193(11)
Martin Parker
Cyberpunk management
204(11)
Erik Pineiro
Index 215

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