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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Timon BeyesPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9781503638303ISBN 10: 1503638308 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 12 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1. Something Winged: Color as Organizational Force 2. Weimar, ca. 1800: Cooking Chocolate 3. New Lanark, 1816: Working the Silent Monitor 4. Lower Bengal, 1859: The Coke of Empire 5. Berlin, 1924: Consuming the Color Chart 6. The Zone, 1945: Unleashing the Synthetic Rainbow 7. Paris, 1967: The Revolution Will Be Colorized 8. Houston, 1971: Two Kinds of Colorism 9. Cologne, 2007: The Distribution of the Insensible 10. Broken Tones: Toward a Chromatics of the SocialReviews"""The imminent critique and 'tender empiricism' of this book, its eloquence and capacity to move from detailed grounding to exciting passages of speculative thought, ensures that Organizing Color escapes 'the archaic stillness of the book.' Impressively researched and written.""—Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne ""Inventive, brilliantly written, and very readable, Organizing Color recovers and explicates the relevance of color to social form—be that chromatic or racialized color.""—Esther Leslie, Birkbeck, University of London" """The immanent critique and 'tender empiricism' of this book, its eloquence and capacity to move from detailed grounding to exciting passages of speculative thought, ensures that Organizing Color escapes 'the archaic stillness of the book.' Impressively researched and written.""—Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne ""Inventive, brilliantly written, and very readable, Organizing Color recovers and explicates the relevance of color to social form—be that chromatic or racialized color.""—Esther Leslie, Birkbeck, University of London ""Organizing is often imagined as a functional concept that belongs in business schools. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Timon Beyes sprinkles aesthetics and politics over this black and white picture. The result is a breathtaking work that will change the way we understand how to 'see' organization.""—Martin Parker, University of Bristol" Author InformationTimon Beyes is Professor of Sociology of Organisation and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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