Ebook: Science Fiction and Organization

Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: more amazing tales -- For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky* -- 'Give me your mirrorshades': science fiction 'methodology' meets the social and organizational sciences -- Science fiction and the making of the laser -- Mirror, mirror* -- Metropolis, Maslow and the Axis Mundi -- The rape of the machine metaphor -- Organizing men out in Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Fay Weldon's The Cloning of Joanna May -- Drowned giants: science fiction and consumption utopias -- Spectacle and inter-spectacle in The Matrix and organization theory -- Is there in truth no beauty?* -- Reading Star Trek: imagining, theorizing, and reflecting on organizational discourse and practice -- From the Borgias to the Borg (and back again): rethinking organizational futures -- Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities: organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society -- 'I am a man, and nothing human is alien to me': alienation and freakishness -- The gamesters of Triskelion* -- 'Repent Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman: digesting science fiction -- Cyberpunk management -- Index.;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.