Resisting French White Boys CMS fads and fashions predilections
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Organization studies sometimes has the appearance of an overgrown field in which rival gardeners compete to plant ever-new hybrid varieties with little attention to the practical usefulness of the plants (Kilduff & Kelemen 2001 p. S55). What can be expected of hybridity寮ce we acknowledge its phenomenological immanence but want to go "beyond"? How can hybridity be made accountable to itself and the multi-layered histories "whence it comes"? How is hybridity to be sustained in all its radical determinancy even as it is politicized as constituency in a determinant context? (Radhakrishnan 2001). Spivak (1989:212) points out that when constructing discourse a trace of our subject position is left behind as 'the marks of a bird's print on the sand'. For Spivak this trace represents the history of Western rationalist institutionalism and must be challenged before feminism can gain full voice because, as Flax points out, gender relations are 'essential to and constitutive of contemporary western culture' (1990: 209). Postmodernism is framed as centrally concerned with such questions of presence and absence and with radically reconceptualising knowledge and truth foundations. Yet rather than opening up space for 'identity politics' challenges, a form of subject-less pragmatism (humanist romanticising) can be seen to be reinstated in the CMS White Boys intellectual tracings. The 'death of the subject' problematic thus come to mean more than just a crisis of representation. In this paper I attempt to move beyond the fads and fashions limits revealed by CMS masculinist preoccupations with the latest 'French White Boy's' treatises - a term coined by Camille Paglia 1995 in reference to Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and Bathelme - by drawing out the reactionary elements embedded in the postmodernist 'turn to philosophy and the literary'. I attempt to counter this continuing hegemony, by outlining the significant potential to be gained from a postcolonial feminist 'culturalist interpreter ' reading where the latter makes visible, and grounds, hybridity as a site for multiple intersecting embodied lived encounters, whilst naming and reframing particularist marginal traces as insights. This hybridity lens will be identified in a range of feminist and postcolonial literary texts that reunite the artificial divisions between feelings, emotions, imagination and reason (traces of which suggest ongoing rationalist influence perceptions in CMS White Boys treatise) with the objective of reclaiming the unbounded sensibilities that mark our politicised lives
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Organisational Behaviour