Composing Collaborationist Collages about Commercial Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-97
Author(s):  
Anna Leander
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Main Building ◽  
War Games ◽  
Martha Rosler ◽  
Feminist New Materialism

This article is an argument about why it is worth taking the trouble to work with feminist, new materialist approaches inspired by Haraway, Mol, Stengers and others, when studying IR questions. It introduces and exemplifies one specific analytical strategy for doing so, namely one of “composing collaborationist collages”, focusing first on the main building blocks of the approach and then on the (dis-)advantages of working with it. In terms of the building blocks, I underline that composing makes it possible to join the heterogeneous and unlikely, that collaging accentuates the scope for playing with heterogeneity and that collaborating is a necessary part of this process as a well as a helpful check on one’s positionality. I then proceed by focusing on the (dis-)advantages of composing collaborationist collages, making the arguments that this research strategy directs attention to (dis-)connections and to the temporal politics of emergence. It also requires a willingness to face the uncertainties associated with creative academic work. The article introduces composing collaborationist collages as a research strategy. It does so working with material from feminist new materialism, practice theories, the exhibition War Games featuring installations by Hito Steyerl and Martha Rosler and my own work on the politics of commercial security.

An organization’s relationship to violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Kate Lockwood Harris
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
Material World ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminist New Materialism

Two sets of assumptions—ones about communication and ones about agency—shape debates over the violence–organization relationship. When scholars and laypersons suggest that words are mere symbols that represent the world and correspond to things in it, communication remains a way to describe violence. Under this representationalist line of thinking, communication is split from the material world and cannot do harm. Similarly, when people assume that agency is a human’s intentional decision about how to act, the broader processes that inform action fade from view. An individual perpetrator becomes the sole violent actor. Both sets of assumptions make it difficult to conceptualize an organization’s role in violence. This chapter relies on feminist new materialism to problematize these assumptions. After providing an overview of the theory’s distinctive features, the chapter shows its resonances with existing scholarship on communication, agency, and organizations. These resonances provide a framework for understanding organizations to be more than mere sites for violence.

scholarly journals The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic–Practitioner Divide

2020 ◽  
pp. 104225871989941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Marc Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Market Opportunity ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Main Building ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Startup Process ◽  
Customer Development ◽  
Lean Startup

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This study seeks to generate new insights into how new ventures are started by describing the five main building blocks of the lean startup framework (business model, validated learning/customer development, minimum viable product, perseverance vs. pivoting, market-opportunity navigation), enriching the framework with existing research findings, and proposing promising research opportunities in a way that reduces the academic−practitioner divide. In so doing, we hope to enhance researchers’ understanding of the startup process; provide knowledge for educators; and, ultimately, improve the startup process for practitioners.

scholarly journals Communication and Feminist New Materialism: Methodologies to understand the continuum between matter and discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2018) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Beatriz Revelles-Benavente ◽  
Ana M. González Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Trapping Force ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Feminist New Materialism ◽  
The Continuum

The relationship between literature and social networking sites (SNS) is a material context in which authors and readers merge into each other to create a literary communicative process that transforms contemporary politics. The aim of this paper is to analyse the communicative process by investigating the continuum between matter and discourse from a new materialist approach. From social sites, we can understand how elements, such as readers, authors, context, novels, culture and digital platforms, “intra-act” (Barad 2007) to create an affecting/ed communicative process. We propose feminist new materialism as a theoretical terrain that helps to reconfigure politics and communication in order to build a methodological framework for contemporary feminist politics and theory related to Literature. Using a digital genealogy and the theory of new materialism, we identify communication in literature as a trapping force in which different elements intra-act with each other and become indivisible. Affecting/ed communication is a dynamic conceptualization, a literary activity in which active agents participate in creative spaces for future social changes.

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