This paper is intended to contribute some background knowledge about the future in management and organisation studies. It provides historical information on the way the social sciences have engaged with the future and seeks to identify the difficulties with the subject of the future for scientific study. It suggests that futurity is an inescapable aspect of all social being and thus needs to b...

a bstr act Reflections on the relationship of aesthetics to politics tend to circle, almost compulsively, around a relatively stable set of conceptual oppositions, inherited from German philosophies of the late 18th century. This essay proposes an expansion of the theoretical terms of the debate by extending the field of transcendental aesthetics into the domain of historical temporalization. F...

Green information technologies (IT) adoption is a plausible attempt for organizations to tackle the current environmental problem. Moreover, it can also be regarded as a means to improve organizational image and economic performance. Efforts have been devoted to investigate the factors leading to organizational Green IT adoption. However, despite of the important role organizational decision ma...

The paper deals with pedagogical heritage of A.V. Usova (1921-2014) that yields insights into problems interdisciplinary relationship in the school science education system. Her fundamental works were used as teaching guides preparation physics teachers all universities Soviet Union and Russia. In this study, professor is not an researcher; she a researcher interdisciplinarity. Here provided sh...

The Japanese deathcare and Buddhist goods industry is a growing field, emerging out of radical shifts in the socio-economic conditions everyday life: smaller households, an ageing population more irregular employment/lifestyle patterns. Based on fieldwork, this article reports tectonic ruptures within Japan’s household-based mortuary system practice. It takes readers to ENDEX, premier conventio...

The author presents John Dewey’s mature account of temporal continuity, showing how position can be identified as a form radical temporalism. Even at the most elemental level (that subatomic particles), natural existence is for such temporalist an irreducibly affair. While he focuses primarily on “Time and Individuality” (1940), supplements his by drawing upon Experience Nature (1925), “Events ...

In this article, author and artist Meena Murugesan analyzes their creative process research in the making of Dravidian Futurities, a multi-channel video installation with live performance. Methodologies auto-ethnography, visual aesthetics, embodied movement practices, Tamil historiographies, queer futurities, caste analysis, poetics are applied to treat issues at hand. Futurities draws connecti...

In this commentary, I address two aspects of Broekhuis and Verkuyl’s (2013) paper Binary Tense and Modality, pertaining to the analysis of the present and the future. Broekhuis and Verkuyl propose an analysis of the morphological present in Dutch as a prospective interval allowing reference to times after the speech time. This renders the Dutch auxiliary zullen redundant as a future marker—and ...

The existing literature on Bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in Bantu languages like Chasu, Lucazi, Lusamia, and Shiyeyi. Thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in Kiswahili based on the selection of TAM types. This is because the sem...