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Becoming self harm, theodicy and neo‐primitive organizing – necessary evil or evil of necessity?

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posted on 2023-07-26, 12:54 authored by Lloyd Gray
The self has emerged as integral to how we comprehend the ethos of contemporary post‐bureaucratic – or what will be termed neo‐primitive – organizing. In juxtaposition, and immanent, are multiple requirements for the self to be harmed, in various ways, for the purposes of achieving organizational progress. This post‐structuralist composition explores how these requirements are inscribed, and desired, in different ways during ontotheological and neo‐primitive processes of sacrifice, neomasochism, simulacra, exclusion, and theodicy. These processes permit the possibility that the harming of the self can be justified (utility/include) and also discounted (diminish/exclude). It is argued, that relations of self and harm constantly arise, and change, during non‐integratable affects and events of radical alteration; namely where self questioning (loss of self) and questioning of self (identity) occur. However, it is argued, neo‐primitive organizing constantly refuses ethical responsiveness to self harm, through the inscriptive superimposition of exchange relations of lack, debt and guilt.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

14

Issue number

2

Page range

151-169

Publication title

Culture and Organization

ISSN

1477-2760

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2012-12-20

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Lord Ashcroft International Business School (until September 2018)

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