Alice Wickström
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View article: Centering the Dialogicity of Care: A posthuman exploration of the politics of liveability in alternative organizing
Centering the Dialogicity of Care: A posthuman exploration of the politics of liveability in alternative organizing Open
This study explores the politics of liveability in alternative organizing from a feminist posthuman approach to care. Drawing on an affective ethnographic engagement with a communal sauna in Finland, we illustrate how ‘responses’ to ‘calls…
View article: Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online countercultural collectives
Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online countercultural collectives Open
Advances in information and communication technologies present remarkable potential for globally dispersed people to connect and engage around a variety of interests. While online communities seemed to initially offer vast potential for so…
View article: Anxiety in digital consumer culture: a psychoanalytic reflection on the emergence of a reactive subjectivity
Anxiety in digital consumer culture: a psychoanalytic reflection on the emergence of a reactive subjectivity Open
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View article: From Dust to Buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation
From Dust to Buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation Open
In this paper, we examine the relationship between space and entrepreneurship, understood as organization-creation, by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s spatial theorizing. Building on an ethnographic study of the Nordic Start-Up Incubator…
View article: The power and burden of representing diversity in a performing arts organization: A recognition‐based approach
The power and burden of representing diversity in a performing arts organization: A recognition‐based approach Open
This paper explores tensions related to using representation to signal diversity and inclusion on and behind the stage in a performing arts organization in Sweden. Drawing on a recognition‐based approach to inclusion, we analyze how minori…
View article: Inhale/exhale
Inhale/exhale Open
This is a brief, poetic expression about sexual violence, vulnerability, and the power of collective resonance.
View article: Girls gone bad: An essay on “Existence” in Chytilová's Daisies
Girls gone bad: An essay on “Existence” in Chytilová's Daisies Open
This essay re‐examines the subversive potential of Vera Chytilová's film Daisies and elaborates on its possibilities for exploring (feminine) existence as difference in relation to work, (re)production, and consumption. Drawing on the work…
View article: “Something is missing”: Melancholia and belonging in collective consumption
“Something is missing”: Melancholia and belonging in collective consumption Open
In this essay, we explore the limits of marketized belonging through Kristeva’s theorization of melancholia and desire. This allows us to problematize “joyful” accounts of societal re-enchantment and how “belonging” through collectives of …
View article: Writing resistance together
Writing resistance together Open
This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective w…
View article: The inhuman challenge: Writing with dark desire
The inhuman challenge: Writing with dark desire Open
Adaptations of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s philosophizing on the immanent forces of the unconscious have risen to challenge joyous, affirmative readings of their work by bringing the dark and destructive aspects of desire into focus. We find …