Armin Beverungen
Biographic Data
| ID | 281396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Armin Beverungen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Armin |
| FAMILY NAME | Beverungen |
| SIGNATURE | BEVERUNGEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3609-0573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Invisualities of Capture in Amazon''s Logistical Operations
This paper explores the status of visuality in surveillance capitalism by considering its role in the management of Amazon’s logistical operations. Whereas Amazon is often portrayed as being at the forefront of developments in surveillance associated with face recognition technologies, a focus on its logistical operations highlights the more mundane role of the barcode scan. The barcode is considered a calm image, central to the operation of capt…
The organizational powers of (digital) media
Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on ‘The organizational powers of (digital) media’ by staging an encounter between organiz…
Cognition in High-Frequency Trading: The Costs of Consciousness and the Limits of Automation
Certain strands of contemporary media theory are concerned with the ways in which computational environments exploit the 'missing half-second' of human perception and thereby influence, control or exploit humans at an affective level. The 'technological unconscious' of our times is often understood to work at this affective level, and high-frequency trading is regularly provided as a primary illustrative example of the contagious dynamics it prod…
Issue 29 Introduction: Computing the City
Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things are often referred to as prime examples not only of new modes of computing, but of a new paradigm of mediation itself.If Lewis Mumford could already ascribe key characteristics of media -such as storage and transmission -to the city, so the city could in itself be understood as a medium (see Kittler, 1996), then nonetheless something changes considerably once 'the city itself is turning into a const…
Value struggles in the creative city: A People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
In this paper we explore the case of Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK, as a neighbourhood in a city which has appropriated the discourse of the creative industries from the bottom up in order to foster its regeneration against capital’s art of rent. We show how Stokes Croft’s self-branding as a cultural quarter has led to struggles over the creative and cultural commons thus produced, which we conceptualise as value struggles where localised value pract…
From the open road to the high seas? Piracy, damnation and resistance in academic consumption of publishing
Armin Beverungen conducts research on how universities retain their charitable status in a market environment, and on the teaching of ethics in business schools. Steffen Böhm has a particular interest in the economics and management of sustainability. He has also founded an open access journal and an open access press, MayFlyBooks. Christopher Land works on artists and the management of their creativity
The poverty of journal publishing
The article opens with a critical analysis of the dominant business model of for-profit, academic publishing, arguing that the extraordinarily high profits of the big publishers are dependent upon a double appropriation that exploits both academic labour and universities’ financial resources. Against this model, we outline four possible responses: the further development of open access repositories, a fair trade model of publishing regulation, a …
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
I'd Prefer Not To’. Bartleby and the Excesses of Interpretation
This paper engages with Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener, as well as contemporary discussions thereof, so as to consider a peculiar concept of excess suggested to us by its main character. Our discussion focuses upon three of the most prominent contemporary Bartlebys: ‘The Politicized Bartleby’ of Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; ‘The Originary Bartleby’ of Gilles Deleuze; and ‘The Whatever Bartleby’ of Giorgio A…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
Cognition in High-Frequency Trading: The Costs of Consciousness and the Limits of Automation
Certain strands of contemporary media theory are concerned with the ways in which computational environments exploit the 'missing half-second' of human perception and thereby influence, control or exploit humans at an affective level. The 'technological unconscious' of our times is often understood to work at this affective level, and high-frequency trading is regularly provided as a primary illustrative example of the contagious dynamics it prod…
I'd Prefer Not To’. Bartleby and the Excesses of Interpretation
This paper engages with Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener, as well as contemporary discussions thereof, so as to consider a peculiar concept of excess suggested to us by its main character. Our discussion focuses upon three of the most prominent contemporary Bartlebys: ‘The Politicized Bartleby’ of Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; ‘The Originary Bartleby’ of Gilles Deleuze; and ‘The Whatever Bartleby’ of Giorgio A…
Value struggles in the creative city: A People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
In this paper we explore the case of Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK, as a neighbourhood in a city which has appropriated the discourse of the creative industries from the bottom up in order to foster its regeneration against capital’s art of rent. We show how Stokes Croft’s self-branding as a cultural quarter has led to struggles over the creative and cultural commons thus produced, which we conceptualise as value struggles where localised value pract…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
I'd Prefer Not To’. Bartleby and the Excesses of Interpretation
This paper engages with Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener, as well as contemporary discussions thereof, so as to consider a peculiar concept of excess suggested to us by its main character. Our discussion focuses upon three of the most prominent contemporary Bartlebys: ‘The Politicized Bartleby’ of Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; ‘The Originary Bartleby’ of Gilles Deleuze; and ‘The Whatever Bartleby’ of Giorgio A…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
The poverty of journal publishing
The article opens with a critical analysis of the dominant business model of for-profit, academic publishing, arguing that the extraordinarily high profits of the big publishers are dependent upon a double appropriation that exploits both academic labour and universities’ financial resources. Against this model, we outline four possible responses: the further development of open access repositories, a fair trade model of publishing regulation, a …
From the open road to the high seas? Piracy, damnation and resistance in academic consumption of publishing
Armin Beverungen conducts research on how universities retain their charitable status in a market environment, and on the teaching of ethics in business schools. Steffen Böhm has a particular interest in the economics and management of sustainability. He has also founded an open access journal and an open access press, MayFlyBooks. Christopher Land works on artists and the management of their creativity
Value struggles in the creative city: A People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
In this paper we explore the case of Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK, as a neighbourhood in a city which has appropriated the discourse of the creative industries from the bottom up in order to foster its regeneration against capital’s art of rent. We show how Stokes Croft’s self-branding as a cultural quarter has led to struggles over the creative and cultural commons thus produced, which we conceptualise as value struggles where localised value pract…
Issue 29 Introduction: Computing the City
Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things are often referred to as prime examples not only of new modes of computing, but of a new paradigm of mediation itself.If Lewis Mumford could already ascribe key characteristics of media -such as storage and transmission -to the city, so the city could in itself be understood as a medium (see Kittler, 1996), then nonetheless something changes considerably once 'the city itself is turning into a const…
Cognition in High-Frequency Trading: The Costs of Consciousness and the Limits of Automation
Certain strands of contemporary media theory are concerned with the ways in which computational environments exploit the 'missing half-second' of human perception and thereby influence, control or exploit humans at an affective level. The 'technological unconscious' of our times is often understood to work at this affective level, and high-frequency trading is regularly provided as a primary illustrative example of the contagious dynamics it prod…
The organizational powers of (digital) media
Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on ‘The organizational powers of (digital) media’ by staging an encounter between organiz…
The Invisualities of Capture in Amazon''s Logistical Operations
This paper explores the status of visuality in surveillance capitalism by considering its role in the management of Amazon’s logistical operations. Whereas Amazon is often portrayed as being at the forefront of developments in surveillance associated with face recognition technologies, a focus on its logistical operations highlights the more mundane role of the barcode scan. The barcode is considered a calm image, central to the operation of capt…
Sociology (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Creativity (2 works)