Organization 2666

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. As if One Could Provide an Introduction to Organization 2666

   • Damian O’Doherty, Sine N. Just, Christian Huber, Christian De Cock

   Pages 1-17

3. Bolaño Versus Business Strategy

   • Robin Holt

   Pages 19-43

4. Reading as Theorizing. A Conjecture Based on the Savage Detectives’ Mode of Inquiry

   • José Ossandón

   Pages 45-61

5. The Key to Our Century and the Mystery at Port-Vendres

   • Fabian Muniesa

   Pages 63-72

6. The Absent Witness: Bolaño’s 2666 as a Case of Fictional Accountability

   • Christian Huber

   Pages 73-87

7. Living, Reading, and Dying in the Didactic Void: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Organized Literature

   • Mrinalini Greedharry

   Pages 89-107

8. Encounters with the Undead: Reading the Other(S) in Bolaño’s 2666

   • rashné limki

   Pages 109-127

9. Machismo as a Mode of Organizing

   • Gibson Burrell

   Pages 129-150

10. Bolaño’s Black Smoke: The Revelation of Horror in Organization

    • Christian De Cock, Rasmus Johnsen, Thomas Burø

    Pages 151-169

Climate – Chaos – Trump – Brexit – Terror: the apocalypse looms large in the Zeitgeist. Could and should this not provide the fulcrum for renewing the imaginative range of organization studies? In this volume, we bring together scholars who have taken Roberto Bolaño’s visionary novel 2666 as a starting point for reflections, provocations, and challenges to established imaginaries. How can we cultivate and develop our attention to the violent organization of the world without reproducing more violence? Contributors to this edited volume take on this challenge as they seek to break through the various blind spots in the discipline of management and organization studies. Bolaño’s work opens up hidden and fantastic dimensions in organization and provides alternative spaces and associations for new and bold organizational thinking. Variously disturbing, self-destructive, and abyssal, these essays reflect “that something that terrifies us all” as Bolaño wrote, “that something that cows and spurs us on”. We call this something Organization 2666.

• Sociology of Organization
• Sociological Theory
• Discourse Analyses
• Theory of Mystery
• Sociology of Literature
• Sociology of Secrets

• Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

  Christian De Cock, Christian Huber

• University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  Damian O’Doherty

• University of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark

  Sine N. Just

Prof. Dr. Christian De Cock, Copenhagen Business School
Prof. Dr. Damian P. O’Doherty, University of Manchester
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christian Huber, Copenhagen Business School
Prof. Dr. Sine N. Just, Roskilde University

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