Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been largely ignored in writing on organization theory. This international collection is the first book of its kind to explore how science fiction can enrich studies of organization by drawing on perspectives across the arts and social sciences.
Notes on contributors vii Introduction: more amazing tales 1(12) Matthew Higgins PART I For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky* 13(28) `Give me your mirrorshades: science fiction `methodology meets the social and organizational sciences 15(16) David McHugh Science fiction and the making of the laser 31(10) Christopher Haley PART II Mirror, mirror* 41(82) Metropolis, Maslow and the Axis Mundi 43(18) James M. Tolliver Daniel E. Coleman The rape of the machine metaphor 61(12) Nanette Monin John Monin Organizing men out in Joanna Russs The Female Man and Fay Weldons The Cloning of Joanna May 73(17) Maria Aline Ferreira Drowned giants: science fiction and consumption utopias 90(11) James A. Fitchett David A. Fitchett Spectacle and inter-spectacle in The Matrix and organization theory 101(22) David Boje PART III Is there in truth no beauty?* 123(68) Reading Star Trek: imagining, theorizing, and reflecting on organizational discourse and practice 125(18) Donncha Kavanagh Kieran Keohane Carmen Kuhling From the Borgias to the Borg (and back again): rethinking organizational futures 143(17) Chris Land and Martin Corbett Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities: organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society 160(17) Christian De Cock `I am a man, and nothing human is alien to me: alienation and freakishness 177(14) Warren Smith PART IV The gamesters of Triskelion* 191(24) `Repent Harlequin! said the Ticktockman: digesting science fiction 193(11) Martin Parker Cyberpunk management 204(11) Erik Pineiro Index 215
Matthew Higgins, Geoff Lightfoot, Martin Parker, Warren Smith
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