Many nice things can be said about theory. Theories help us organize our thoughts, generate coherent explanations, and improve our predictions. In short, theories help us achieve understanding. But theories are not ends in themselves, and members of the academic field of management should keep in mind that a blanket insistence on theory, or the requirement of an articulation of theory in everyt...

How reasonable is our insistence on optimal solutions? Not too long ago we were content with designing systems which merely met given specifications. It was primarily Wiener’s work on optimal filtering and prediction that changed profoundly this attitude toward the design of systems and their components. Today we tend, perhaps, to make a fetish of optimality. If a system is not “best” in one se...

In Bogotá, urban planners employ the notion of juridical archaeology to describe the difficulties associated with the implementation of the city’s profuse and contradictory building regulations. They evoke a stratified and recalcitrant topography of decrees whose unpredictable effects are tied to the juxtapositions and gaps between sedimented legal artifacts. In practice, however, juridical arc...

mind or abstract body? And how might this understanding figure in the transformation of ethical care? Husserl claims that the life-world (Lebenswelt) and the lived-body (Leib) have been ‘forgotten’, ‘surreptitiously substituted’ (p. 48) by the historical sedimentations of technoculture and tradition, ‘fashionable prejudices and their phraseologies’ (p. 289). If the forgotten life-world and live...

Statistical significance testing has its problems, but so do the alternatives that are proposed; and the alternatives may be both more cumbersome and less informative. Significance tests remain legitimate aspects of the rhetoric of scientific persuasion. I admit it: after more than 25 years of reading, writing, reviewing, and editing scientific research in psychology and related fields, I still...

Moments of crisis may serve as critical junctures for imagining alternatives. As the future has become increasingly volatile and precarious in these unsettled times pandemic, climate emergency, rising inequality an ever looming digital (r)evolution, there is a great need opportunity to develop theory that can guide society towards its potentialities. But how we theorize what does not (yet) exis...

Classifications, typologies, labels, and other organizational tools help us wade through complex cultural contexts specificities. They may be a point of departure that suggests clarity, providing veil reassurance. Yet, if not subject to renewal in terms temporal spatial considerations, they can become static mechanisms constrain obscure the wealth changing seemingly anomalous factors are essent...

A key signature is a collection of paths in pitch-class space. As such, it provides a powerful tool for thinking about voice leading, one that can be used to answer familiar objections to the very notion of a voice leading between pitch-class sets. I begin by generalizing the traditional Western system of musical notation, defining paths in pitch-class space, and showing that key signatures are...

Pornography is neither a documentary media genre that documents what real sex in everyday life looks like, nor it pedagogical or moral aimed at showing ideal (in terms of health morality) should look like. Instead, pornography fictional depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies activities for the purpose arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding ethics effects,...

The concept of transparency is now an unescapable reference in public, professional, and private life. As transparency-making has recently transmuted from a progressive instrument to counter corruption into new universal ideological formation, it time problematize the its uses. In this article, I consider not as moral principle or static ideology but terrain political struggle over meaning prac...