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Escaping Wonderland

Fact fiction

In Lewis Caroll’s celebrated 1871 novel, Through the looking-glass (TLG), which is the sequel to his beloved Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (AIW) from 1865, the protagonist Alice encounters the so-called

Towards a politics of dis/organization: Relations of dis/order in organization theory and practice

[T]he work of organization is focused upon transforming an intrinsically ambiguous condition into one that is ordered so that organization as a process is constantly bound up with its contrary state of disorganization. (Cooper, 1986: 305)

 

[T]he undecidable can only become decidable through the practice of power and ‘violence’ (Cooper, 1986: 324)

Capitalist unrealism: Countering the crisis of critique and imagination

Introduction: Capitalism, unpacked

How does capitalism – in its various guises – capture the value that we produce in society? There are many ways to answer this question, because capitalism has many ways to extract value from us (Chertkovskaya et al., 2016; Hanlon, 2017). On the surface, everything seems above board. Businesses erect factories and offices for us to work in; workers sign contracts and receive wages for their daily efforts; and shareholders put in the capital and get a return on their investments. But below the surface, things are not quite so straightforward.

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