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Dear All,

Please join us online on Tuesday, 23 January, at 4pm GMT, for the first R:ETRO seminar of this term, hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Mar Perezts (emlyon business school) will be giving a paper entitled "Fighting organised numbness: unpacking necropower and disposability on the margins of (un)learning, (dis)embodiment and (re)orienting." 

Abstract:

Organized numbness is a learned desensitization and disembodied habituation, the organized inability to perceive sensations, operating in the way our (1) bodies, (2) language, and (3) knowledge are constructed, disciplined and organized, thereby heavily impacting our actions. And if organized numbness is learned-in that it is internalized through rules, socialization mechanisms, writing conventions, and ideological premises-it can also be unlearned. Exploring the tensions of unlearning, of dis-and re-embodiment, and of re-orienting we can push back the margins of isolation, indifferent contempt and the various forms of violence operating through mechanisms of necropower and disposability that permeate many of our organized relations, as illustrated by several key examples. Situating ourselves at these margins (as our chosen place, understood dynamically, as bordering process) fosters our capacity for organizing with and through resonance and ethical relationality to produce a form of knowledge which is not 'numb'.

Click here to register.

I hope to see many of you there!

All the best,
Rita

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Rita Mota
Assistant Professor
ESADE Business School
Barcelona
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