What happens to a dream différed? Restive capital and the somnambulant artist after the colonization of the dreamworld
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Existing scholarship on organizational paradox theory has often favored an integrative approach that constructively embraces the connection between terms. But such an approach risks evacuating paradox of its contradictory character and masking its fundamental undecidability. Drawing on the life and writings of nineteenth-century worker-poet Louis-Gabriel Gauny as interpreted by Jacques Rancière, this study traces human experience in organizational contexts across three key paradoxes: time, identity, and flexibility. Gauny’s reflections suggest a neither/and approach to paradox that preserves the tension between opposites while maintaining an indifferent disloyalty to polar extremes. Implications for contemporary managerial practices include the need to critically reevaluate the concept of work-life balance. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Abraham, "What happens to a dream différed? Restive capital and the somnambulant artist after the colonization of the dreamworld" (2025). College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 455.
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