The politics of post-human technologies: Human enhancements, artificial intelligence and virtual reality
呼吁学者对后人类技术进行批判性组织研究,指出这些技术可能加剧企业主导、侵蚀团结、固化不平等和工具化生活世界,并强调需要结合重大社会问题进行反思性实证研究。
This essay encourages fellow scholars to consider critical organizational studies of post-human technologies. While these nascent technologies hold many promises, they also risk exacerbating several unacceptable organizational features that have been regularly documented, discussed and combated in Organization over the past 30 years. These features include, among other evils, corporate domination and colonization; further erosion of organic solidarity; entrenchment of inegalitarian imaginaries; and impoverished lifeworlds oriented toward instrumental efficiency alone. In order to steer them democratically, we need reflexive empirical studies of post-human technologies in connection with big societal issues.