Sucking, Bleeding, Breaking: On the Dialectics of Vampirism, Capital, and Time

Godfrey, Richard; Jack, Gavin; Jones, Campbell

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“…The aim is to both struggle against the ways we are made monsters by daily processes of capitalism and also embrace our innate monstrousness as unique individuals. This reading resonates with the radical reading of the vampire introduced by Godfrey et al (2004). In contrast with the traditional demonization of the vampire as "evil", this figure of the undead instead symbolizes the "monstrosity" of the present system.…”

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We are all monsters now!

Bloom

2014

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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We are all monsters now! : A Marxist critique of liberal organization and the need for a revolutionary monstrous humanism Peter Bloom Article information:Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Marxist accounts of capitalism and capitalists as "vampiric" and "cannibalistic" can challenge the exploitation underlying "monstrosity" of the diverse "liberal organization". Design/methodology/approach -To bear out this argument, it will critically turn to Marx's original description of capitalism as "vampire" like. It will do so by examining a range of theoretical and existing empirical research related themes of contemporary diversity. Findings -The paper argues that in order to avoid becoming capitalist monsters it is imperative to adopt an explicitly anti-capitalist Marxist perspective centring on themes of a "monstrous" capitalism. Capitalist organizations, not only "suck the blood of workers" but turns them into exploiting vampires, feeding on others for own profit and promotion. Yet it also expands on such readings by emphasizing the liberating possibilities that a more contemporary view of "monsters" stressing radical diversity and difference can make to this Marxist critique. Originality/value -To this end, it illuminates how a perspective uniting these ideals, termed here as a "revolutionary monstrous humanism", can effectively challenge the dehumanization of managerial control and market ideologies while also fighting for the right of individuals to express their heterogeneous and always evolving unique cultural identities.

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Section: Edi 337mentioning

confidence: 68%

We are all monsters now!

Bloom

2014

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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“…However, the metaphor of the vampire is frequently featured in the protest against capitalism and the managerial society. It was used long ago by Karl Marx (1867/1976, 342), and is one of the better-known images of a gothic representation of the capitalistic firm (see also Godfrey, Jack and Jones 2004;Parker 2005).…”

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Poetry in motion: protest songwriting as strategic resource (Portugal, circa 1974)

Guimarães‐Costa

Cunha

2009

Culture and Organization

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“…Situating folklore and the rhetoric of vampirism in the enterprise discourse For Godfrey et al (2004), 'the vampire is at once an ancient figure and our perfect contemporary'; for Gelder (2004) the legend of the vampire haunts the popular imagination. According to Gordon and Hollinger (1997) and Latham (2002), the vampire has become part of a wider contemporary cultural consumption.…”

Section: Rereading Vampire Narratives As Enterprise Discoursementioning

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“…Furthermore, Smith (2001) refers to vampire discourse as a historical ministration of a psychoanalytical discourse connected to Eastern European folklore. 7 The use of dark, Gothic metaphors to illustrate entrepreneurial behaviour is already accepted practice in academia, the evidence for which is in the writings of Temperley (1977), Moretti (1982Moretti ( , 1983, Lyman (1991), Cohen (1997), Craft-Holifield (2000, Fu-Lai Yu (2000), O'Neill (2002), Shaviro (2002), Freeberg (2002), O'Rawe ( 2003), Godfrey et al (2004) and Lefebvre (2005). Peterson (2004), reviewing 'Consuming youth: vampires, cyborgs, and the culture of consumption', the article by Latham (2002), identifies the vampire as a key metaphor of our time.…”

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“…Lyman (1991) discusses imperial corporations as a manifestation of Gothic capitalism in the image of a vampire, and Shaviro (2002) refers to the nineteenth century, with its classic regime of industrial capitalism, as the age of the vampire. Godfrey et al (2004) seek a dialectical understanding of vampirism, capital and time and discuss the vampiric nature of capitalism, with its emphasis on feeding as opposed to creating. Moreover, O'Rawe ( 2003) suggested the category of the auteur-entrepreneur, recasting the entrepreneur as a predatory figure, directing and controlling the play.…”

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Using Innovative Pedagogies in the Classroom

Cardow¹,

Smith²

2015

Industry and Higher Education

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It can be difficult to interest students in academic topics if they have no prior exposure to or experience of the subject. The authors introduce and discuss a pedagogic innovation designed to trigger interest in entrepreneurship and ‘enterprise culture’. They use fiction in the form of Gothic context and the vampire motif to move the student through Bloom's cognitive levels of learning. The vampire is a mythic creature spawned from the deepest recesses of folkloric imagination. The entrepreneur might be seen in a similar light. The authors therefore explore these ‘Byronic heroes’ and vampirism as heuristic devices to help re-story and better understand entrepreneurial processes and narratives. They demonstrate that there are elements of enterprise discourse in contemporary narratives and images of vampires. The analysis is based on observations of the late 1990s early 2000s teenage television serial ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, which retains its popular and academic cult status. Through the identification of the familiar (vampires and Buffy) as examples of the entrepreneurial construct, the unfamiliar (the construct of entrepreneurship) is made more accessible because both students and faculty approach it from a shared understanding rather than from a position of inequality. Themes of morphology and transformation emerge, but the paper's main contribution lies in its account of a novel way of teaching entrepreneurship to a new generation of students. It offers insights into making entrepreneurship more interesting for students and so into developing an entrepreneurial mindset. At the same time, the process allows for discussion of how the student has become aware of the concepts of entrepreneurship, thus facilitating knowledge in a non-threatening way.

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Sucking, Bleeding, Breaking: On the Dialectics of Vampirism, Capital, and Time

Cited by 14 publications

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We are all monsters now!

We are all monsters now!

Poetry in motion: protest songwriting as strategic resource (Portugal, circa 1974)

Using Innovative Pedagogies in the Classroom

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