Of Philip K. Dick, Reflexivity, and Shifting Realities
Organizing (Writing) in Our Post-Industrial Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12808232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian De Cock (0000-0002-8152-1523, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SSRN Electronic Journal (REPOSITORY) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1556-5068 • E-ISSN: 1556-5068 |
| Publisher | RELX Group (Netherlands) (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.650686 |
| OpenAlex | W4241517454 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
After introducing the problematic from the perspective of organisation studies - the growing awareness of the tenuous nature of organisational reality and the difficulty we have in constructing texts that deal with this tenuous reality in a reflexive way - I explore the key characteristics of Dick's novels and the essence of his writing techniques. This is followed by a discussion of Ubik to give the reader a flavour of a typical Dickean novel. I conclude with the logical, but rather too predictable, discussion of the importance of Dick for the field of organisation studies. Of course, it would be nonsensical to suggest that we can apply Dick in the way it has happened with Foucault, Derrida or Elias, but to name a few. Yet there is be something curiously attractive about an author who used the most trashy tropes of a genre (SF) to create a body of work that both transcends and invigorates that genre. Could this point to an analogue in organisation theory that might enable us to frame new possibilities of writing or reading organisational narratives? Perhaps
Post-industrial society · Reflexivity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism
Work Self and Society
Narrating the Organization
How We Became Posthuman
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics
Telling Organizational Tales
Appealing Work
Economies of Signs and Space
Global Organization
The Future, Disposable Organizations and the Rigidities of Imagination
The Problem of Reflexivity in Organizational Research
Managers as Androids
Organization–Representation
Understanding Wittgenstein
At the Critical Moment
Science, Knowledge and Society
That's Classic!' The Phenomenology and Rhetoric of Successful Social Theories
Funking up the Cyborgs
Thinking About Limits
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |