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The Question of Technology, or How Organizations Inscribe the World

Author(s) -

Bernward Joerges,

Barbara Czamiawska

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

organization studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.441

H-Index - 148

eISSN - 1741-3044

pISSN - 0170-8406

DOI - 10.1177/017084069801900301

Subject(s) - metaphor , argument (complex analysis) , palimpsest , epistemology , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , literature , art , biochemistry , chemistry

The paper relates technology studies to organization,research and examines the technology- as-text metaphor. The study of organization,is incomplete,as long,as tangible technology re- mains in its blind spot. Linguistic metaphors and analogues, while capturing and indeed am- plifying much of received understandings of technology, succeed only partially in repairing the situation. The image of the palimpsest is used to highlight this critique and to visualize ways out. Thus, while the paper‚s main concern is to bring back technology to the study of organization, a specific approach to the study of technology is also argued for. 2 Silent Inscription

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