Idleness as a micro ethico-political action

Karakilic, Emrah Ali (2021) Idleness as a micro ethico-political action. Organization, 28 (6). pp. 1049-1058. ISSN 1350-5084

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Abstract

According to Deleuze and Guattari, the central project of capitalism consists in the articulation of economic production with the production of subjectivity. The first part of this paper expands on how capitalism manufactures a particular mode of existence corresponding to its economic flows. Herein, it is argued that the paradigmatic figure of our neoliberal and machinic times is a self-condemning subject, attached simultaneously to the assemblages of capitalism as slave units in the cybernetic sense. The second part revolves around the question of activating a new process of subjectivation towards a new mode of existence. It is argued that the latter requires a voyage to an immanent outside and returning to the present plane of existence with new perspectives to recombine its elements differently. This spiritual voyage presupposes a suspension of the general mobilisation decreed by capital. In this context, idleness – in the form of meditative life – is offered as a micro ethico-political action that may not only allow us to acknowledge our habitually reactive selves but also give access to the outside where hitherto unknown existential refrains and configurations could be discovered.

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Journal Article
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Organization
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?? idlenessdeleuzeguattaricapitalismpolitical actiongeneral business,management and accountingstrategy and managementmanagement of technology and innovationbusiness, management and accounting(all) ??
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201387
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30 Aug 2023 09:25
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