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Timon Beyes: The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization
The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization
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Timon Beyes

The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization

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  • criticism
  • digital culture
  • digitalization

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Timon Beyes

is Professor of Sociology of Organization and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg and a director at its Centre for Digital Cultures, and holds a fractional professorship at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the spaces, technologies and aesthetics of organization in the fields of media culture, art, cities and higher education. Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies (2020, with Robin Holt and Claus Pias), Organize (2019, with Lisa Conrad and Reinhold Martin), ‘The medie arcane’ (in Grey Room 75, 2019, with Claus Pias).
Other texts by Timon Beyes for DIAPHANES
Erich Hörl (ed.), Nelly Y. Pinkrah (ed.), ...: Critique and the Digital

The computerization of today’s world has fundamentally transformed the sites of and for critique, and it challenges the meaning of critique as such. The subject of critique, constituted through the cultural techniques of modernity, now collides with the digital, which, as a condition of contemporary life, can be seen both as a product of modernity and as its very ending. Digitality severely alters the subject of critique and its spacio-temporal relations; it may even deprive the subject of its potentiality to be critical in the first place. The authors of this volume therefore examine the existence of critique in the digital, asking what it might be and in what settings it occurs.