Peripheral Vision
Organization Studies · 2005 · Volume 26 · Issue 11
Abstract
The act of relating is analysed as a constitutive feature of human agency. Relating is viewed as the continuous work of connecting and disconnecting in a fluctuating network of existential events. Relating re-lates the human world as a restless scene of flowing parts in which whole, self-contained objects take second place to the continuous transmission of movement. The relating of the world of moving parts is illustrated through the examples of modern methods of mass production and the transmission of information which both produce a 'weakening of reality'.
Keywords
human agency, information transmission, the latent, part–whole relationship, production–prediction
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