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Organs of Process: Rethinking Human Organization

Robert Cooper Keele University, UK, cooper.robert{at}talk21.com

Human organization is discussed as a social body or collection of organs and senses that create and re-create the forms and objects that constitute the human world. Organs represent process as the continuous making and remaking of passages between the body and its environment. Organs express a pre-human, impersonal force that transmits itself through the human body and its products in a generic act of making as opposed to the making of specific forms and objects. Process is discussed as the ceaseless work of alternation between the making of presence and the unmaking of absence. The work of process is illustrated through the work of three examples of human organization: the supermarket, the art gallery and the Church.

Key Words: absence-presence • making-unmaking • organ • pre-work • production-prediction • projection • sentient continuity

Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 10, 1547-1573 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607076587


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