Becoming self harm, theodicy and neo-primitive organizing - necessary evil or evil of necessity?

摘要

The self has emerged as integral to how we comprehend the ethos of contemporary post-bureaucratic - or what will be termed neo-primitive - organizing. In juxtaposition, and immanent, are multiple requirements for the self to be harmed, in various ways, for the purposes of achieving organizational progress. This post-structuralist composition explores how these requirements are inscribed, and desired, in different ways during ontotheological and neo-primitive processes of sacrifice, neomasochism, simulacra, exclusion, and theodicy. These processes permit the possibility that the harming of the self can be justified (utility/include) and also discounted (diminish/exclude). It is argued, that relations of self and harm constantly arise, and change, during non-integratable affects and events of radical alteration; namely where self questioning (loss of self) and questioning of self (identity) occur. However, it is argued, neo-primitive organizing constantly refuses ethical responsiveness to self harm, through the inscriptive superimposition of exchange relations of lack, debt and guilt.