{"product_id":"organizing-color-toward-a-chromatics-of-the-social-hardback-9781503638303","title":"Organizing Color; Toward a Chromatics of the Social (Hardback) 9781503638303","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward a Chromatics of the Social\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTimon Beyes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503638303\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 18 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.496 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The immanent critique and 'tender empiricism' of this book, its eloquence and capacity to move from detailed grounding to exciting passages of speculative thought, ensures that \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/i\u003e escapes 'the archaic stillness of the book.' Impressively researched and written.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne \"Inventive, brilliantly written, and very readable, \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/i\u003e recovers and explicates the relevance of color to social form—be that chromatic or racialized color.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Esther Leslie, Birkbeck, University of London \"Organizing is often imagined as a functional concept that belongs in business schools. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Timon Beyes sprinkles aesthetics and politics over this black and white picture. The result is a breathtaking work that will change the way we understand how to 'see' organization.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Martin Parker, University of Bristol \"[\u003ci\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/i\u003e] delves into fascinating questions about our color experiences.... Highly recommended.\"—L. L. Kriner, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"The book contributes to organizational scholarship by attenuating the 'colorblind constitution of socio-organizational thought', highlighting some of the intricate and interconnected ways in which the 'primary organizational force' of color manifests. Most notably, it provides a phenomenological template for the analysis of color in the field of organizational aesthetics. It also reinforces the recent tendency to conceptualize cultural products as configurations of particular elements, examining their social construction and relational nature in historical perspective.\"—Stoyan V. Sgourev, \u003ci\u003eAdministrative Science Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with color's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's \u003ci\u003eAdorno's Grey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a \"chromatics of organizing\"—that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Something Winged: Color as Organizational Force\u003cbr\u003e  2. Weimar, ca. 1800: Cooking Chocolate\u003cbr\u003e  3. New Lanark, 1816: Working the Silent Monitor\u003cbr\u003e  4. Lower Bengal, 1859: The Coke of Empire\u003cbr\u003e  5. Berlin, 1924: Consuming the Color Chart\u003cbr\u003e  6. The Zone, 1945: Unleashing the Synthetic Rainbow\u003cbr\u003e  7. Paris, 1967: The Revolution Will Be Colorized\u003cbr\u003e  8. Houston, 1971: Two Kinds of Colorism\u003cbr\u003e  9. Cologne, 2007: The Distribution of the Insensible\u003cbr\u003e  10. Broken Tones: Toward a Chromatics of the Social\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610708734232,"sku":"9781503638303","price":95.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/organizing-color-toward-a-chromatics-of-the-social-hardback-9781503638303","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}