[ecrea] ephemera 10.2: The State of Things released

> The State of Things
> ephemera: theory & politics in organization
> Volume 10, number 2 (may 2010)
> http://www.ephemeraweb.org
> Edited by Steven D. Brown, Simon Lilley, Ming Lim and Stevphen Shukaitis
>
> Today we live in a vastly transformed state of things: the artifice of
> artefacts is evident all around us. A parliament of communication
> technologies, from RFIDS to Bluetooth devices, constantly exchange
> information and network all around and through us. Wireless networks
> of communication, control, and cooperation proliferate in mysterious
> ways, all speaking an infra-language of organization, inscribing new
> techniques of governance. But these networks have become all the more
> indiscernible by the open secret of their appearance.
>
> Developments in Actor Network Theory (ANT) and autonomist
> technoscience studies have made a turn towards the economic. What does
> this bode for the field of organization studies? Will these two
> movements join in an encompassing view of posthuman economic
> institutions? Will ANT provide the definitive answer to the
> interrelation of economics, politics and objects? These two yet
> separated strands of economy and politics might provide a good
> opportunity to revisit the problematics of objects and their politics,
> combining them with more traditional approaches.
>
> This issue of ephemera: theory & politics in organization considers
> potential links between ANT and autonomist thought, linking them
> together through a politics of technology and artefacts.
>
> Articles
> Johan Söderberg and Adam Netzén
> When all that is theory melts into (hot) air: Contrasts and parallels
> between actor network theory, autonomist Marxism, and open Marxism
>
> Anna Feigenbaum
> Concrete needs no metaphor:
> Globalized fences as sites of political struggle
>
> Dimitris Papadopoulos
> Insurgent posthumanism
>
> Norah Campbell and Mike Saren
> The primitive, technology and horror: A posthuman biology
>
> Elizabeth R. Johnson
> Reinventing biological life, reinventing ?the human'
>
> Reviews
> Martin Parker
> Pirates and the uses of history
>
> Michael Rowlinson
> Organizational memory: Narrative control and resistance

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