TY - JOUR

T1 - Reframing the possible

T2 - Rancièrian aesthetics and the study of organization

AU - Beyes, Timon

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - This paper draws upon the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière in order to outline a reconfigura-tion of the relations between aesthetics, art and organization (theory). For this, I will consider a specific notion of aesthetics as the distribution of the sensible that enables modes of articulation, i.e. ways of perceiving, thinking and saying (Rancière, 2004a). Hence, aesthetics here does neither refer to a theory of taste and sensual pleasure, nor solely to art theory or the study of specific forms of art. For reasons that will be discussed in this paper, Rancière nevertheless attributes to art a significant power of rearranging and expanding what can be perceived and what is thinkable (Rancière, 2007b). I will suggest that a Rancièrian thinking of aesthetics in general as well as its implications for exploring artistic endeavours in particular are interesting terrain for the study of organization and the field of organizational aesthetics, most notably by provoking the organizational scholar to think rupture and dissent, hence emergence and newness from an aesthetico-political perspective.

AB - This paper draws upon the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière in order to outline a reconfigura-tion of the relations between aesthetics, art and organization (theory). For this, I will consider a specific notion of aesthetics as the distribution of the sensible that enables modes of articulation, i.e. ways of perceiving, thinking and saying (Rancière, 2004a). Hence, aesthetics here does neither refer to a theory of taste and sensual pleasure, nor solely to art theory or the study of specific forms of art. For reasons that will be discussed in this paper, Rancière nevertheless attributes to art a significant power of rearranging and expanding what can be perceived and what is thinkable (Rancière, 2007b). I will suggest that a Rancièrian thinking of aesthetics in general as well as its implications for exploring artistic endeavours in particular are interesting terrain for the study of organization and the field of organizational aesthetics, most notably by provoking the organizational scholar to think rupture and dissent, hence emergence and newness from an aesthetico-political perspective.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Digital media

KW - Digitale Kultur

KW - Digitale Kulturen

KW - Netzkultur

KW - Medienkultur

KW - Medienkulturen

KW - Medienwissenschaften

KW - Neue Medien

KW - Soziale Medien

KW - Medientheorie

KW - digital Culture

KW - digital Cultures

KW - net culture

KW - meida culture

KW - media cultures

KW - media studies

KW - new media

KW - social media

KW - media theory

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

UR - https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/49829/

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 2

SP - 32

EP - 42

JO - Aesthesis

JF - Aesthesis

SN - 1751-9853

IS - 1

ER -