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Gasparin, M., Brown, S.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7841-3225, Green, W., Hugill, A., Lilley, S., Quinn, M., Schinckus, C., Williams, M. and Jan, Z.,
2020.
The business school in the Anthropocene: parasite logic and pataphysical reasoning for a working earth.
Academy of Management Learning and Education.
ISSN 1537-260X
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Abstract
We have entered the Anthropocene: a new geological epoch in which human activities, led by business interests, have inexorably compromised the Earth System. The current failure to provide a comprehensive and systematic response to this transition does not result from a lack of reason but is instead the manifestation of a generalized crisis in communication. Drawing from the work of Serres, we analyze how the roots of this crisis lie with the 'parasite logic', which has prevented reasoned responses to the Anthropocene. To work through this crisis, it is necessary to adopt different forms of reasoning and imagination to reshape the rational basis of management education. We propose to do it through pataphysics, a science subjecting dominant modes of rationality to a divergent thinking of the absurd and proposing playful forms of reasoning. Pataphysics provides a mechanism for developing 'imaginary solutions' to the current situation, that can disrupt anthropocentric forms of reason and reasoning, and further serve to slow down the endless cycles of inclusion and exclusion that arise from parasite logic. Finally, we propose slow design as an example of an 'imaginary solution' that comes from this process of conceptual and practical deacceleration.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Academy of Management Learning and Education | ||||||
| Creators: | Gasparin, M., Brown, S.D., Green, W., Hugill, A., Lilley, S., Quinn, M., Schinckus, C., Williams, M. and Jan, Z. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||
| Date: | 23 June 2020 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1537-260X | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 24 Jun 2020 13:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2021 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40102 |
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