From Well-Bounded Ethnographies to Intervening in Mycorrhizae Activities
基于Julian Orr的民族志研究,指出当代工作正从控制转向蜂群、从边界清晰的职业社区转向菌根状结构,呼吁采用干预性研究方法以发掘资本主义工作矛盾中的发展潜力。
Julian Orr’s book is a carefully crafted ethnography of a well-bounded and stable occupational community obsessed with control and largely dependent on stories as mediating epistemic tools. Today’s world of work is going through, or at least making possible, some major transformations: from control to swarming, from bounded occupational communities to mycorrhizae-like formations, from latent dilemmas to dynamic contradictions, and from singular epistemic tools, such as stories, to multilevel instrumentalities. The emerging landscapes of work call for radically revised methodologies of research that carry out interventions to find developmental potentials in the contradictions of work in capitalism.