"Unsocial sociability: The paradoxes of intellectual capital formation and social capital networks"
Seminar med Peter Murphy, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies (Australia)
- an imagine.. seminar in collaboration with Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
Peter Murphy: Associate Professor of Communications at Monash University. He is co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (London: Continuum, 2004), author of Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001), editor of Agon, Logos, Polis (Franz Steiner, 2000), coeditor of The Left In Search Of A Center (University of Illinois Press, 1996), editor of a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press, 1998) on friendship. His body of work includes more than sixty journal articles and chapters in edited collections. He has been a Research Fellow and Visiting Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School For Social Research in New York City, a Visiting Scholar in the Hellenic Language and Literatures Program at The Ohio State University, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ballarat (Australia), a Visiting Scholar at Panteion University in Athens, a Visiting Professor in Political Science at Baylor University, Texas, Director of the Master of Communications Program at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He is also Coordinating Editor of the international critical theory and historical sociology journal Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology (Sage).
Abstract: If advanced economies are increasing ‘conceptual’ in nature, and if wealth creation is increasingly generated from the arts and sciences, then it is important to understand how firms and institutions manage creativity and creative work forces. Intellectual capital formation, the leading edge of the most successful modern firms, is more complicated and more much ambiguous than models of social capital formation (for example) would suggest. Knowledge-forming firms and institutions have to manage the difficult paradox of unsocial sociability of high-level creative workforces and the highly porous boundaries of open systems where boundary crossing and boundary maintenance must be simultaneously upheld. They also have to create spaces for those who trade in the enigmas and paradoxes of creative thinking whilst maintaining routines of production and distribution where norms rather antitheses regulate behavior. If this is the case, then how is a creative firm possible?
The paper
"Unsocial sociability: The paradoxes of intellectual capital formation and social capital networks" can be downloaded here:
Time: Thursday, April 19, 10.00 - 12.00
Place: Kilen, Kilevej 14a, 2000 Frederiksberg, CBS
Room: K.S.71 (Ground level)