On the Manager’s Body as an Aesthetics of Control

Nancy Harding

Chapter 8 in Art and Aesthetics at Work, 2003, pp 115-132 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter stems from a larger project which aims at developing an understanding of the ways in which managers are subordinated to the organizations in which they work. Managers make up a large percentage of the students I teach, and I meet them often as part of my research: it seems to me that their jobs are unappealing, their amenity to being exploited is huge, but they are in the best position in which to organize some form of revolt against the conditions of their work. That they remain utterly subordinated to working lives that have little to recommend them is a source of curiosity for me. To suggest that it is their salaries or other perks of their jobs which guarantees their quiescence is, I think, crass and presumptuous. In this chapter I explore one of the reasons for their continued subordination, which I find in the aesthetics of the managerial body.

Keywords: Personality Disorder; Subjectified Body; Queer Theory; Managerial Body; Internal Object (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554641_8

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