Taking Dictation: Collage Poetics, Pathology, and Politics

Rainey, Lawrence

doi:10.1353/mod.1998.0043

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“…As Reich (1946) has observed "if the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible" (p. 28). However, the freedom being offered by SAW would seem to be freedom from alienation through the expedient of possession by the spirited corporation through the mediumship of the charismatic leader -a definition of freedom which resonates strongly with that promoted by both the School of Fascist Mysticism, established in Milan in 1930 by Arnoldo Mussolini (Rainey, 1998), and the Al Qaeda terrorist network (Forray and Stork, 2002). Indeed, as Nadesan (1999: 35) observes, although SAW discourses claim to elevate the power of the individual "they have authoritarian tendencies, particularly when backed by the power of the high-ranking CEO who sees himself or herself as either a spiritual 'guru' or 'magnetic preacher' (see Bellah et al, 1985: 237)".…”

Section: Movement Between the Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Invoking spirits in the material world: Spiritualism, surrealism, and spirituality at work

Corbett

2009

Management & Organizational History

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This paper considers the recent upsurge of interest in workplace spirituality through an analysis of three cultural movements -late nineteenth century spiritualism, early twentieth century surrealism, and late twentieth/early twenty-first century 'spirituality at work'. These movements share a common interest in harnessing the power of the human spirit in the transformation and 'betterment' of social life. It is argued that these movements have successively adopted and de-radicalised invocations of the spirit world such that the proto-feminism and utopianism of spiritualism and the revolutionary pretensions of surrealism have been usurped by a strongly managerialist discourse of workplace spirituality. The paper ends with a consideration of the implications of these developments for the critical study of spirituality, management and organisation.--

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Section: Movement Between the Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%