Post-Foundational Political Thought

Marchart, Oliver

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“…In order to explain what we mean by a post-foundational approach we will turn to some key points found in the work of Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek. It should be noted that similar (but not identical) arguments could be found in the work of Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Claude Lefort (Marchart, 2007). However, our purpose in this paper is not to give an allencompassing picture of post-foundationalism, including detailed analyses of its numerous representatives.…”

Section: A Post-foundational Approach To Discoursementioning

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Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

Cederström

Spicer

2013

Organization

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. In response to the postmodern invasion of organization studies, some critics have issued increasingly loud cries that we should 'get real' about organizational discourse Permanent repository linkanalysis. But what precisely do these proponents take to be the 'real'? In this paper we trace out some of the attempts of 'getting real', arguing that these approaches have some important limitations. We then explore the relevance of a post-foundational approach to discourse, which, we argue, have far reaching implications for the study of organizational discourse. We argue that such approach offers us a way of theoretically linking the 'real' with (1) the way discourses are structured around fundamental gaps, (2) how discourses are brought together through nodal points, and (3) how discourses generate affective and emotional attachment. We then offer some suggestions of how these points can be used to study the organizational processes. We conclude by reflecting on some of the limitations of this approach to studying discourse.2

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Section: A Post-foundational Approach To Discoursementioning

confidence: 81%

“…It is a gap, or lack, which prevents the discourse from closure and from becoming identical with itself (Marchart, 2007). This means that the 'Real', rather than signifying a higher objectivity beyond or outside discourse, points to the limit of any absolute grounding of discourse.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

Cederström

Spicer

2013

Organization

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“…Fluidity is central to a post-foundational approach; dynamic processes of collective work (as hegemony) and identity (as identifications) stand in for the absent ontological ground. From this perspective, leadership development should be approached as inseparable from the notion of enacting leadership, as to enact is to develop, to rework and reformulate the contingent ontological terrain upon which leadership is brought to life (Marchart, 2007).…”

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Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development

Jones

Winchester

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Management Learning

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This article offers a praxis of democratic leadership development, arguing that the framework presented can act as a means of rethinking how collective forms of leadership are developed within and between organisations. Building on notions of leadership development as process and person-based, we interpret these as contested, democratic and contingent discursive achievements in a process of developing. Postfoundationalist theory, particularly the work of Ernesto Laclau, is introduced as a means of 'democratizing' key dimensions of leadership development: working with 'leadership' and 'democracy' as empty-floating signifiers holding the potential to generate energetic engagements between leadership development participants. A framework consisting of four dimensions is introduced, with particular attention paid within each dimension to its practice relevance. First, we seek to democratise the leader-subject, reinterpreted as a contested and contingent signifying subject of discourse. Second, we seek to radicalise the process of development through foregrounding conflict and agonistic practice. Third, we introduce the notion of symbolic violence as a means of thinking about direction setting within development contexts. Fourth, we argue for development that pays attention to the unknown, to the gaps in discourse. We explore each dimension in relation to an illustrative example, a cross-organisational women's group in the Pacific.

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“…It is important to separate the free and wage labour which produced the object in its actual field (labour which in its execution if not in the scale of its reward was no different from any other form of construction-based wage labour) discursive methodological field. Just as Paul Ricoeur and his followers, for instance, have successfully machinati (Marchart 2006;Marchart 2007), so it is important to uphold the conceptual operations of a work over and above the grubbiness of its initial material execution.…”

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In advance of a broken attestant, or where is art’s critical subject?

Fitton

2016

Art &Amp; The Public Sphere

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Abstract:Two concurrent understandings of criticality in art assign it as a potential property of artworks themselves, or bemoan it as lacking in art's audiences. This division can be traced to its roots in the Romantic conception of criticality, in which the critical procedure completes an unfinished work. This act of completion, and an accompanying conception of transformatory potential, is generally held to occur in the presence of a primary audience; an idea which is undermined by recent attributions of critical force to non-present secondary audiences. This essay traces these orientations of thought as they structure recent approaches to practice, then offers an example of a mode of practice which refuses to attribute any critical or transformatory capacity to either its original material effects or a primary audience. Any critical or transformatory force is played out as the work propagates and adjusts itself in its afterlife.

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Post-Foundational Political Thought

Cited by 450 publications

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Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development

In advance of a broken attestant, or where is art’s critical subject?

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