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Decaf resistance : on misbehavior, cynicism, and desire in liberal workplaces
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Contu, Alessia (2008) Decaf resistance : on misbehavior, cynicism, and desire in liberal workplaces. Management Communication Quarterly, Vol.21 (No.3). pp. 364-379. doi:10.1177/0893318907310941 ISSN 0893-3189.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0893318907310941
Abstract
The author reconnects resistance in production to its radical roots. Current literature suggests that resistance in the liberal workplaces of late capitalism has gone underground, becoming mostly evident in unofficial, offstage practices such as cynicism, parody, and humor. The author argues this resistance is too often a decaf resistance. This is a resistance without the cost of radically changing the economy of enjoyment, which ties us to our master. The author argues that resistance, as a real act, which suspends and changes the constellation of power relations, has a cost that cannot be accounted for in advance. To understand this cost, we need an ethics, which the author calls, following Lacan, the Ethics of the Real.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Management Communication Quarterly | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0893-3189 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.21 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 364-379 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0893318907310941 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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