Breaking from the Weight of the Eternal Present
反思一次鼓励学生想象替代性组织形式的教学实验的失败，探讨学生为何难以认真对待组织差异，并借鉴Gibson-Graham和福柯的思想，提出需要挑战资本中心主义的经济解读、发展经济差异的词汇，以及通过系谱学打破历史以开启未来差异的可能性。
This article reflects on an attempt to encourage students to imagine alternative forms of organizing, and on the ultimate failure of this pedagogical experiment. It explores students’ reluctance to take organizational difference seriously in terms symptomatic of a broader inertia in social sciences that severs ‘difference’ from the realm of possibility, reducing difference to degrees of capitalist practices and the future to an extension of the present. Drawing on the work of Gibson-Graham, it argues that making alternative organizing conceivable requires challenging the capitalocentric reading of the economy, and developing a vocabulary of economic differences. It suggests that to address the common charge that alternatives will not be able to withstand the ‘tide of history’, we also need to work on conceptions of time and history that open the future to the possibility of difference. It draws on Foucault’s genealogy to ‘break history’ and insert points of rupture at which ‘new beginnings’ can be imagined.