The body without organs: nonorganizational desire in organizational life |
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Authors: | TORKILD THANEM |
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Institution: | School of Business , Stockholm University , SE‐106 91, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | In an attempt to challenge the status of the organizational, this paper proposes a ‘nonorganizational’ turn towards embodiment and desire. Introducing and critically discussing Deleuze and Guattari's () notion of the ‘body without organs’ (BwO), it argues that this may improve organization theory's opportunities to think about the forces of embodied desire that disrupt, undermine and escape organization, upset the homogeneity of organizational life, and overpower organizations to such an extent that they cease to be organizations. Rather than adding more ‘organization’ to ‘organizational life’, this may be a way to put more ‘life’ into it. And rather than deeming organization more powerful, this may be a way to recognize its limitations and fragility. |
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Keywords: | Deleuze and Guattari The Body without Organs Organizational Life Nonorganization |
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