Benjamin’s phantasmagoria

Cohen, Margaret

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“…The earliest phantasmagoria were devised by Etienne-Gaspard Robertson (Cohen, 1989; Warner, 2006). Alongside the fear he hoped to engender (successfully, according to contemporaneous accounts), Robertson also wanted to de-mystify his spectres through exposing the mechanisms by which they were produced, maintaining that ‘his illusions were designed as an antidote to superstition and credulity’ (Robertson, 1830, cited in Warner, 2006: 153).…”

Section: The Phantasmagoria: a Gothic Metaphor For The Analysis Of Diversity Managementmentioning

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Shadows and light: Diversity management as phantasmagoria

Schwabenland

Tomlinson

2015

Human Relations

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Within the field of critical diversity studies increasing reference is made to the need for more critically informed research into the practice and implementation of diversity management. This article draws on an action research project that involved diversity practitioners from within the UK voluntary sector. In their accounts of resistance, reluctance and a lack of effective organizational engagement, participants shared a perception of diversity management as something difficult to concretize and envisage; and as something that organizational members associated with fear and anxiety; and with an inability to act. We draw on the metaphor of the phantasmagoria as a means to investigate this representation. We conclude with some tentative suggestions for alternative ways of doing diversity.

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Section: The Phantasmagoria: a Gothic Metaphor For The Analysis Of Diversity Managementmentioning

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Shadows and light: Diversity management as phantasmagoria

Schwabenland

Tomlinson

2015

Human Relations

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“…England, after all, pre-dated France in the technological innovations of the Industrial Revolution, the financial practices of speculative capitalism, and the empire building of the modern colonial project. But, as Marx pointed out, social formations develop unevenly, and Benjamin was fascinated with France’s premier contribution to modernity’s political and cultural contours.(Cohen, 2004: 200)…”

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Manchester, capital of the nineteenth century

Wolff

2012

Journal of Classical Sociology

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This essay accepts David Frisby's invitation to take seriously the method of sociological impressionism employed by Georg Simmel, and the related strategies of Walter Benjamin (sequences of quotations, selection of key aspects of modernity -dialectical images). To that end, it proposes Manchester, instead of Paris, as the 'capital of the nineteenth century', through the presentation of examples of its paradigmatic figures and events: the 1857 exhibition, the collector and the art dealer, the discovery of a synthetic colour, a certain historic desk, and the warehouse and the mill. Through this writing strategy, the 'fragments of modernity' take on a rather different aspect.

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“…Buci‐Glucksmann (1994, p. 45) calls it a ‘torn Marxism’, reading Benjamin as a practitioner of ‘baroque reason’—a reason born out of, and into, catastrophe, driven by a ‘logic of dislocation’. Writing, living and dying ‘under the sign of failure’ (Cohen, 2004, p. 200) and the looming shadow of Fascism, Benjamin was perhaps the pre‐eminent methodologist of disappointment.…”

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“…For lack of space, this paper does not pursue possible gothic entanglements. See Castricano (2001) and Cohen (2004) for a gothic reading of, respectively, Derrida and Benjamin.…”

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“…Under the umbrella of ‘post‐Enlightenment’ theorising I would include deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, queer theory and other not‐so‐emphatically‐named orientations. Users of trouble‐words include: disconcertion —Taussig (1993); bafflement —Krauss (1993); failure —Visweswaran (1994), Cohen, 2004; entanglement —Bal (1999); ruin —St Pierre and Willow (2000); trouble —Butler (1990); melancholy —Buci‐Glucksmann (1994); haunting —Derrida (1994), amongst many other writers. Critiques of ‘clarity’ as a methodological or policy goal are also practices of disappointment: cf.…”

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'A Demented Form of the Familiar': Postmodernism and Educational Research

MacLure¹

2006

J Philosophy of Education

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What can postmodernism do for, or to, educational research? The article discusses its potential for resisting closure and simplification. Developing a ‘preposterous’, anachronistic postmodern method that is caught up with surrealism and the baroque, the article plays with trompel'oeil paintings and outmoded popular entertainments such as magic lanterns, peep shows and clockwork automata as figures for critique and analysis. It argues for defamiliarisation, fascination, recalcitrance and frivolity as methodic practices for research in the compromised conditions of postmodernity, and as forms of ethical resistance to the risk‐averse literalism that pervades contemporary education policy.

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Benjamin’s phantasmagoria

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Shadows and light: Diversity management as phantasmagoria

Shadows and light: Diversity management as phantasmagoria

Manchester, capital of the nineteenth century

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