The Outer Limits: Monsters, Actor Networks and the Writing of Displacement
聚焦科幻与行动者网络理论作为书写位移的方式,探讨组织如何通过排斥他者与无序来维持自身,并用两个位移入侵案例说明他者如何在表征中被实现。
This article focuses on science fiction and actor network theory as ways of writing displacement which are relevant to organization studies. Recent work within organizational theory and related (sub)disciplines has suggested that the articulation of organization as a privileged site of presence is made possible by that which is Othered and excluded (or rather deferred) as representing disorganization and disorder. Organizations in this view constitute `incomplete and transient' accomplishments always under threat from various forms of intrusion and displacement. By way of illustration, two examples of displacement! intrusion and their associated organizational `dramas of proof' are examined as a way of exploring how the Other, the alien and out of place, is realized in representation.