Affiliation:
1. Grenoble Ecole de Management, France & Cardiff Business School, UK
Abstract
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.
Funder
Chaire Numérique - Grenoble Ecole de Management
ndependent Social Research Foundation
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,General Business, Management and Accounting