Richard Weiskopf
Biographic Data
| ID | 125710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Weiskopf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiskopf |
| SIGNATURE | WEISKOPF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6441-8391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Questioning the ‘transparency-fix’ in the fight against corruption
Increasingly, transparency is seen as a panacea in the fight against the ‘cancer of corruption’ and as a solution that fixes problems associated with all sorts of organizational misbehavior. In this paper, we turn the given into a question and study transparency not as a solution to the problem of corruption, but rather as a historically contingent form of problematization that links specific problem constructions with specific technologies for g…
Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other
Dis/organising visibilities
This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like that and at that cost’ (Foucault, 2003: 265). This positioning involves an understanding of transparency as a practice that is historically contingent and multiple, and thus negotiable and contested. By illustratin…
Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics
Does human reflexivity disappear as datafication and automation expand and machines take over decision making? In trying to find answers to this question, we take our lead from recent debates about People Analytics and analyze how the use of algorithmically driven digital technologies like facial recognition and drones in work-organizations and societies at large shape the conditions of ethical conduct. Linking the concepts of algorithmic governm…
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Spectrogenic Profiling, and Hyper-Facticity in the Age of Post-Truth
This paper investigates algorithmic decision-making and data-driven profiling as particular ways of producing truth by which "(wo)men govern themselves and others." It starts with problematizing some of the fundamental assumptions on which algorithmic decision-making relies. It then conceptualizes profiling as a "spectrogenic process" in which abstractions are produced that haunt the world, thereby generating material effects of sorting people in…
Ethics as Critical Practice
This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in which subjects (re)define their relations to self and others. Situating this conception of ethics in the context of practice theory, we draw upon ideas of responsible decision-making (Derrida) and truth-telling (Foucault) to examine Daniel El…
Management of human capital
This article provides a contribution to the Foucauldian problematization of HRM. It draws particular attention to Foucault’s lectures that were devoted to re-conceptualizing power relations to accommodate transformations that have arisen from the emergence of liberal and neoliberal forms of government. Whilst Foucauldian approaches to HRM have mainly focused on the centripetal elements of disciplinary power in modern management, they have tended …
Ethical–aesthetic critique of moral organization
This paper looks at the work of the Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke as an inspiration for developing an ethical–aesthetic critique of organization. Haneke's practice of film-making is located in the tradition of an ‘ethical parrhesia’, the courageous and often dangerous ‘truth-telling’, which aims at the transformation of being. Haneke's approach is then illustrated with an analysis of his film The White Ribbon. This example is taken to illust…
Deconstructing "The Iron Cage"--towards an Aesthetic of Folding
This essay develops elements of an aesthetic of folding. It uses the metaphor of the fold as a moving concept, which allows overcoming dualistic modes of thinking, which separate inside and outside, organization and environment. The paper starts with the deconstruction of the story of the “Iron Cage ” which haunted members of a concrete organization in which the author is positioned. Similarly, organizational theorists in the Weberian and Foucaul…
Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics
Does human reflexivity disappear as datafication and automation expand and machines take over decision making? In trying to find answers to this question, we take our lead from recent debates about People Analytics and analyze how the use of algorithmically driven digital technologies like facial recognition and drones in work-organizations and societies at large shape the conditions of ethical conduct. Linking the concepts of algorithmic governm…
Ethical–aesthetic critique of moral organization
This paper looks at the work of the Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke as an inspiration for developing an ethical–aesthetic critique of organization. Haneke's practice of film-making is located in the tradition of an ‘ethical parrhesia’, the courageous and often dangerous ‘truth-telling’, which aims at the transformation of being. Haneke's approach is then illustrated with an analysis of his film The White Ribbon. This example is taken to illust…
Deconstructing "The Iron Cage"--towards an Aesthetic of Folding
This essay develops elements of an aesthetic of folding. It uses the metaphor of the fold as a moving concept, which allows overcoming dualistic modes of thinking, which separate inside and outside, organization and environment. The paper starts with the deconstruction of the story of the “Iron Cage ” which haunted members of a concrete organization in which the author is positioned. Similarly, organizational theorists in the Weberian and Foucaul…
Deconstructing "The Iron Cage"--towards an Aesthetic of Folding
This essay develops elements of an aesthetic of folding. It uses the metaphor of the fold as a moving concept, which allows overcoming dualistic modes of thinking, which separate inside and outside, organization and environment. The paper starts with the deconstruction of the story of the “Iron Cage ” which haunted members of a concrete organization in which the author is positioned. Similarly, organizational theorists in the Weberian and Foucaul…
Management of human capital
This article provides a contribution to the Foucauldian problematization of HRM. It draws particular attention to Foucault’s lectures that were devoted to re-conceptualizing power relations to accommodate transformations that have arisen from the emergence of liberal and neoliberal forms of government. Whilst Foucauldian approaches to HRM have mainly focused on the centripetal elements of disciplinary power in modern management, they have tended …
Ethical–aesthetic critique of moral organization
This paper looks at the work of the Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke as an inspiration for developing an ethical–aesthetic critique of organization. Haneke's practice of film-making is located in the tradition of an ‘ethical parrhesia’, the courageous and often dangerous ‘truth-telling’, which aims at the transformation of being. Haneke's approach is then illustrated with an analysis of his film The White Ribbon. This example is taken to illust…
Ethics as Critical Practice
This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in which subjects (re)define their relations to self and others. Situating this conception of ethics in the context of practice theory, we draw upon ideas of responsible decision-making (Derrida) and truth-telling (Foucault) to examine Daniel El…
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Spectrogenic Profiling, and Hyper-Facticity in the Age of Post-Truth
This paper investigates algorithmic decision-making and data-driven profiling as particular ways of producing truth by which "(wo)men govern themselves and others." It starts with problematizing some of the fundamental assumptions on which algorithmic decision-making relies. It then conceptualizes profiling as a "spectrogenic process" in which abstractions are produced that haunt the world, thereby generating material effects of sorting people in…
Dis/organising visibilities
This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like that and at that cost’ (Foucault, 2003: 265). This positioning involves an understanding of transparency as a practice that is historically contingent and multiple, and thus negotiable and contested. By illustratin…
Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics
Does human reflexivity disappear as datafication and automation expand and machines take over decision making? In trying to find answers to this question, we take our lead from recent debates about People Analytics and analyze how the use of algorithmically driven digital technologies like facial recognition and drones in work-organizations and societies at large shape the conditions of ethical conduct. Linking the concepts of algorithmic governm…
Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other
Questioning the ‘transparency-fix’ in the fight against corruption
Increasingly, transparency is seen as a panacea in the fight against the ‘cancer of corruption’ and as a solution that fixes problems associated with all sorts of organizational misbehavior. In this paper, we turn the given into a question and study transparency not as a solution to the problem of corruption, but rather as a historically contingent form of problematization that links specific problem constructions with specific technologies for g…
Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)