In business discourse, the leader is often portrayed as the one who changes the current order. Leaders stand above the organization, and from that elevated position they can bring about the necessary ...change that offers a way out of whatever crisis afflicts the business. In this paper, I consider the paradoxical fact that leaders, in our popular understanding at least, do not use orders when creating order: leadership is generally thought to exclude the coercive force that we associate with the giving of orders or commands. I explore this distinction between leading and commanding through a reading of Elias Canetti's chapter on 'The command' in his book Crowds and power. My overall argument is that the violence of the command (its 'sting', in Canetti's terms) can also make itself felt in seemingly benign models of leadership that challenge various forms of authoritarianism. My suggestion is therefore to put the sting back into leadership research by giving up on the idea that it is possible to conceive of leadership as operating without any coercive force.
In this paper, prompted by Robert Cooper's reading of Elias Canetti's 'the sting', we attempt our own reading through Martin Heidegger's notion of the uncanny. We consider how the sting, as a ...cyclical process of command and its inevitable reversal, permeates attempts to enforce strategic direction in any organizational setting. We then consider how, at the topological moment of inflection when commands from the old order invert and become the commands of the commandeered, there is an equalising experience of organizational uncanniness in which strategy is no longer the struggle to define a distinct, coherent, well-ordered organizational form, but the struggle to question it.
Bu çalışmada Elias Canetti'nin Körleşme ve Tahsin Yücel'in Sonuncu adlı romanları karakterler ve tematik benzerlikler açısından ele alınarak, romanlardaki ana karakterlerin, kitapların dünyasıyla ...olguların dünyası arasındaki sıkışmışlıkları irdelenecektir. Özellikle romanların ana karakterlerinin kitaplarla ilişkisi, dünya edebiyatının ölümsüz figürlerinden Don Quixote izleǧinde okunacaktır. Çalışmada Yeni Eleştiri yönteminden yararlanılacaktır. Çalışmada Canetti'nin Körleşme ve Tahsin Yücel'in Sonuncu romanlarında entelektüelin yaşamla ilişkisi açısından Don Quixote'tan ilhamla oluşturulmuş olabileceǧi ve Canetti'yle Yücel'in eserlerini Cervantes'e benzer amaçlarla yazdıkları sonucuna varılmıştır.
Aggrieved crowds throw objects in protest that dole out insult and injury in equal measure. Despite the motley things in a crowd's arsenal, there is a pattern to pelting and the range of causes for ...which rocks, tomatoes, eggs, pies, milkshakes, shoes, and water bottles are thrown with regularity. Pelting overcomes distance by touching the body of a powerful enemy by proxy. In hitting the sublime body with "matters out of place," the crowd relocates the sovereign aura within itself while transgressing the boundaries of high and low. This essay considers pelting in all its joyous, violent, fun, furious, and law-breaking glory and, therefore, as a medium and metaphor of the crowd.
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There are strong continuities between crowd theory, which flowered during the early twentieth century, and theories of populist mobilization. Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960) bridges these two ...literatures. Canetti gives us two relatively underappreciated ideas—the sting of command and the impulse for survival—that explain how populist movements change over time. To demonstrate how Canetti's work speaks to theories of populism, I draw on my fieldwork in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution was, arguably, the most progressive political movement of the twenty-first century, but it veered wildly off course. Crowd theory gives us tools to track this transformation. Rather than imagining that populist movements are vacuous from the outset, Canetti directs attention toward their animating grievances. This article considers how the grievances that fed the Bolivarian Revolution eventually consumed it; this is a modest attempt to understand how one of the most promising political movements in recent memory ended up such a long way from where it started.
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The crowd has played and continues to play a very important role in Iranian politics at critical moments. This article looks at its role in the mid 20th century, especially during the times of rule ...of Reza Shah (1925-1941) and Mohammad Mosaddegh (1951-1953). The article reviews European thought about the masses, with special emphasis on the ideas of Bulgaria-born Nobel Laureate in Literature Elias Canetti. Canetti believed that the crowd was not always irrational, evil forces, but sometimes played a positive historical role: when it demanded and enacted social change. It is exactly what happened during the times of Mosaddegh. A look at these times is made through excerpts from the Iranian novel Neighbors by Ahmad Mahmoud, through a look at the press of that time and Ervand Abrahamian's historical writing.
Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
profoundly influenced many key figures of modern psychiatry, including
Bleuler and Jaspers, Freud and Jung. Author Elias Canetti described it as
...the ‘most important document in psychiatric literature’. To read this work –
typically considered a paradigmatic expression of paranoid schizophrenia –
is to risk a shaking of one's complacency, especially concerning the key
symptom of delusion. For me personally, it was a revelation.
Motivated by Melissa Ziad's balletic protest within Algeria's Hirak demonstrations, this article recuperates a distinction between the right to assembly and the right to free speech, constitutional ...guarantees blurred under contemporary rhetoric of association. By applying methods of dance studies to legal interpretation, it shifts crowd theory away from an anxiety of touch toward a copresence that allows for constituent power of the people to be reclaimed. Therefore, it intervenes within a broader discourse of the legal humanities that privileges the logocentric over embodied ways of knowing.
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