Exploring the Organizational Proliferation of New Technologies: An Affective Actor-Network Theory
Exploring the Organizational Proliferation of New Technologies: An Affective Actor-Network Theory
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DOI：
10.1177/0170840618815524
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发表时间：
2019-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
D. Sage;Chloé Vitry;A. Dainty
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作者：
D. Sage;Chloé Vitry;A. Dainty
在本文中，我们探讨了人类和非人类的身体之间的情感接触在新技术的扩散和跨工作组织的作用。我们的探索不仅挑战了技术创新研究中长期存在的理性主义，也挑战了新兴的技术、创新和影响研究中的自我中心主义。针对这些倾向，我们提出并阐述了一个情感行动者网络理论（ANT）作为一种替代的分析方法，通过交叉的概念与德勒兹的阅读的情感哲学斯宾诺莎。我们的方法随着联合王国零碳家庭的技术创新而得到进一步阐述。情感蚂蚁被提出来解释的深刻作用的影响，在循环的技术和技术的循环的影响。这一理论的贡献是具有挑战性的：影响，创新和技术的研究，以检查关系的人的影响，在新技术的扩散的意义;组织研究，考虑人和技术的影响的相互作用;和Deleuzo-Spinozian组织研究，概念化的影响是如何组织服务于管理利益和议程，如技术创新。
In this paper we explore the role of affective encounters between human and non-human bodies in the proliferation of new technologies within and across work organizations. Our exploration challenges not only the long-standing rationalism within studies of technological innovation but the anthropocentrism of burgeoning studies of technology, innovation and affect. Responding to these proclivities, we propose and elaborate an affective Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as an alternative analytical approach by cross-fertilizing ANT concepts with Deleuze’s reading of the affective philosophy of Spinoza. Our approach is elaborated further with the technological innovation of zero-carbon homes in the United Kingdom. Affective ANT is proposed to explain the profound role of affects in the circulation of technologies and of technologies in the circulation of affects. This theory contributes by challenging: studies of affect, innovation and technology to examine the significance of relational human affects in the proliferation of new technologies; organizational studies to consider the interplay of human and technical affects; and Deleuzo-Spinozian organizational studies to conceptualize how affects are organized to serve managerial interests and agendas, such as technological innovation.