Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization journal (2001-2012)

Ephemera is the free journal for the discussion of theoretical and political perspectives on all aspects of organization; supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.

Editorial collective: Anna-Maria Murtola, Armin Beverungen, Bent Meier Sørensen, Casper Hoedemaekers, Chris Land, Kate Kenny, Lena Olaison, Martyna Sliwa, Michael Pedersen, Nick Butler, Peter Svensson, Sara Louise Muhr, Stephen Dunne, Stevphen Shukaitis, Sverre Spoelstra
ISSN 2052-1499

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vol 12, no 4 (nov 2012) — The commons and their im/possibilities
vol 12, no 3 (aug 2012) — Professions at the margins
vol 12, no 1-2 (may 2012) — The atmosphere business
vol 11, no 4 (nov 2011) — Work, play and boredom
vol 11, no 3 (aug 2011) — The effect of affect
vol 11, no 2 (may 2011) — Governing work through self-management
vol 11, no 1 (feb 2011) — Authenticity
vol 10, no 3/4 (nov 2010) — Digital labour: Workers, authors, citizens
vol 10, no 2 (may 2010) — The state of things
vol 10, no 1 (feb 2010) — The excellent institution
vol 9, no 4 (nov 2009) — The university of finance
vol 9, no 3 (aug 2009) — Throwing shoes…
vol 9, no 2 (may 2009) — Project management behind the façade
vol 9, no 1 (feb 2009) — ‘No we can’t’: Crisis as chance
vol 8, no 4 (nov 2008) — Practical Criticism and the Social Sciences of Management
vol 8, no 3 (aug 2008) — University, Failed
vol 8, no 2 (may 2008) — Alternatively
vol 8, no 1 (feb 2008) — Symptoms of Organization
vol 7, no 4 (nov 2007) — Always Elsewhere
vol 7, no 3 (aug 2007) — Local Solidarity
vol 7, no 2 (may 2007) — Marginal Competencies
vol 7, no 1 (feb 2007) — Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored
vol 6, no 4 (nov 2006) — Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms
vol 6, no 3 (aug 2006) — América Latina / Latin America
vol 6, no 2 (may 2006) — Organizing between a rock and a hard place
vol 6, no 1 (feb 2006) — In Times, in and as Global Conflict
vol 5, no X (dec 2005) — Web of Capturing the Moving Mind
vol 5, no 4 (nov 2005) — Inscribing Organized Resistance
vol 5, no 3 (aug 2005) — Unwrapped: Let’s Get Out of Here
vol 5, no 2 (may 2005) — The Organisation and Politics of Social Forums
vol 5, no 1 (feb 2005) — Writing:Labour
vol 4, no 4 (nov 2004) — Paid in Full? Writing Beyond the Pale
vol 4, no 3 (aug 2004) — Theory of the Multitude
vol 4, no 2 (may 2004) — No Critique
vol 4, no 1 (feb 2004) — Handle with Care
vol 3, no 4 (nov 2003) — silent sounds
vol 3, no 3 (aug 2003) — Images of Organization
vol 3, no 2 (may 2003) — From…To…
vol 3, no 1 (feb 2003) — Exhibiting
vol 2, no 4 (nov 2002) — Hors d’oeuvre
vol 2, no 3 (aug 2002) — After Organization Studies
vol 2, no 2 (may 2002) — Writing Politics
vol 2, no 1 (feb 2002) — Vorsprung durch Technik?
vol 1, no 4 (nov 2001) — Responding: To Cooper
vol 1, no 3 (aug 2001) — It Appears that Certain Aphasiacs…
vol 1, no 2 (may 2001) — O cursèd spite
vol 1, no 1 (feb 2001) — Castles Made of Sand

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Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy journal, No. 0-1 (2010-2011)

“The second issue of SCAPEGOAT looks to current practices to intensify our concept of Service—as a problem. That is, how can we develop new models for self-management and mutual aid that move beyond unidirectional forms of service as clientelism and dependency? How can we think through service provision beyond the State? How can we privilege voluntary association and ethical reciprocity rather than volunteerism? How can new approaches to training and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge be radically re-organized? How has the rise of the populist Right coincided with mechanisms of gentrification and the ideologies of the so-called ’creative city’? How can we counter the predominance of economic metaphors in our attempts to articulate values and commitments? How could design services work in solidarity with the labour of extraction, construction, and maintenance?” (authors)

Issue 1: Service
Summer 2011
Editors: Jane Hutton, Etienne Turpin
28 pages

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“The inaugural issue examines the centrality of the problem of Property because it is the literal foundation for all spatial design practices. We believe that this buried foundation must be exhumed. Architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design each begin with a space that is already drawn, organized, and formed by the concrete abstraction of the property lines. From our perspective, Property stands as the most fundamental, yet underestimated, point of intersection between architecture, landscape architecture, and political economy. What is a “site” except a piece of property? What are architecture and landscape architecture but subtle and consistent attempts to express determined property relations as open aesthetic possibilities? And, decisively, how can these practices facilitate other kinds of relation?” (authors)

Issue 0: Property
Fall 2010
Editors: Adrian Blackwell, Etienne Turpin
24 pages

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SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy is an independent, not-for-profit, bi-annual journal designed to create a context for research and development regarding design practice, historical investigation, and theoretical inquiry.

As a mytheme, the figure of the scapegoat carries the burden of the city and its sins. Walking in exile, the scapegoat was once freed from the constraints of civilization. Today, with no land left unmapped, and with processes of urbanization central to political economic struggles, SCAPEGOAT is exiled within the reality of global capital. The journal examines the relationship between capitalism and the built environment, confronting the coercive and violent organization of space, the exploitation of labour and resources, and the unequal distribution of environmental risks and benefits. Throughout our investigation of design and its promises, we return to the politics of making as a politics to be constructed.

Publisher: Scapegoat Publications, Toronto
Editorial board: Adrian Blackwell, Adam Bobbette, Jane Hutton, Marcin Kedzior, Chris Lee, Christie Pearson, Etienne Turpin

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Rethinking Marxism: Special Issue on the Common and the Forms of the Commune (2010)

This issue brings together papers that tackle a series of problematics which are formulated around the concepts of common, commune, community, and communism, and which engage with the field of critical Marxism. The discussions include the critique of property and commodity fetishism; the relation between ‘modes of production’ and ‘modes of subjectivity’; the rupture with a bourgeois political imaginary circumscribed by the relation between public and private; and the antagonistic nature of class as a process or composition. While an organizing aspiration has been to stage an encounter between operaismo and Althusserian Marxism, contributors complicate this divide by drawing from different philosophical sources and bringing into existence a broader intellectual plane within which these problematics can be situated.

Rethinking Marxism, Volume 22, Issue 3, 2010
Editor: S. Charusheela
Guest editors: Anna Curcio and Ceren Özselçuk

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