| Therefore
Tom Peters (see Liberation Management) as the apologists for multinationals (see Wow and Tom Peters Seminar) pops two Prosaic, hops a jet, and calls for more speed in global production, innovation, and service.
Hammer & Champy's reengineering while out of favor in business circles is still strong in universities, hospitals and government. Gore gives Hammer awards.
Point: This is the ultimate spectacle of postmodern production and consumption in the late modern condition of postindustrial capitalism I am calling TD1 |
Therefore
My own Proposals: -Decenter -Redistribute industrial means and capacity throughout the population. -Reduce expert dependency. -More autonomous self-adaptation, less managed adaptation to the environment will be tolerated. -Make systems self-managed -Resist TD1 spectacles of production and consumption. -Provoke TD2 resistance campaigns.
Point: As an affirmative postmodernist with a critical bent, I still think it is possible to find what I call an Ahimsa Festival of non-violent production and consumption. |
| E.g. Nike - Since disastrous processes are triggered in turbulent fields, organizations coalesce to control the field and one another. Given the global division of labor in the turbulent field, we are seeing a mixture of mechanistic (barbarian) organizations such as Nike’s subcontractors in Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea and other sites --- along with systems that we would define as more participative and organic. | Progress Myth - Technological
progress gives majority unneeded and unaffordable gadgets instead of simple,
needed tools - Ivan Illich
This myth is also resisted in postmodern organization theory. |
| In Sum
TD1 - Knowledge specialists centralize delivery networks for limited access to the elite minority. TD1- Virtuality is stressed of the interpersonal touch and feel of here and now and the locality of place. TD1 - is Spectacle on an Interorganizational global stage. |
In Sum
Ivan Illich seeks to slow down the speed or our technology by focusing upon more "convivial tools:" a limited form of technology that is people-controlled, rather than institutionally controlled.
My own work is to relate Ahimsa and Simplicity moves to a critical and postmodern theory of TD I call TD2. |