Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet

IF 2.8 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Management Learning Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI:10.1177/13505076221112795

Mar Pérezts

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Abstract

I define “organized numbness” as the organized inability to perceive sensations, a learned desensitization operating in the way our (1) bodies, (2) language, and (3) knowledge are organized. I propose poetic synesthesia’s power to associate several sensory perceptions as a way to unlearn this sort of disembodied habituation. Inspired by the so-called “accursed” French poets of the 19th century, the “long, prodigious, and rational disorganization of all the senses” of synesthesia helps me propose a method for unlearning organized numbness. I illustrate this by “a study in scarlet,” that is, by plunging into the depths of a synesthetic exploration of blood as my “fil rouge” to infuse our working bodies with renewed sensorial and embodied—or rather “embloodied”—life. I end by discussing how cultivating poetic synesthesia can help us unlearn organized numbness in the body, in language, and in knowledge, and how it can instead respectively foster resonance by learning (1) a different embodied habituation of sensorial sensitivity, (2) a language that instead of abstracting us from the senses actually allows us to reconnect with them and to delve deeply into their combined and thereby potentiated power, and (3) an epistemological gateway to the “unknown.”

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通过诗歌联觉释放有组织的麻木：《猩红》研究

我将“有组织的麻木”定义为有组织地无法感知感觉，这是一种习得的脱敏，以我们（1）身体、（2）语言和（3）知识的组织方式运作。我提出了诗歌联觉的力量，将几种感官感知联系起来，以此来摆脱这种无实体的习惯化。受19世纪所谓“被诅咒”的法国诗人的启发，联觉的“所有感官的漫长、惊人和理性的无序”帮助我提出了一种忘记有组织麻木的方法。我通过“猩红色的研究”来说明这一点，也就是说，通过深入到血液作为我的“胭脂”的联觉探索深处，为我们的工作身体注入新的感官和具体的——或者更确切地说是“充满血液”的——生命。最后，我讨论了培养诗意联觉如何帮助我们摆脱身体、语言和知识中有组织的麻木，以及它如何通过学习（1）不同的感官敏感的具体习惯来分别促进共鸣，（2）一种语言，它不是把我们从感官中抽象出来，而是让我们与感官重新联系，并深入研究它们的综合力量，从而增强力量；（3）通往“未知”的认识论大门

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Management Learning MANAGEMENT-

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6.10

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29.20%

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期刊介绍： The nature of management learning - the nature of individual and organizational learning, and the relationships between them; "learning" organizations; learning from the past and for the future; the changing nature of management, of organizations, and of learning The process of learning - learning methods and techniques; processes of thinking; experience and learning; perception and reasoning; agendas of management learning Learning and outcomes - the nature of managerial knowledge, thinking, learning and action; ethics values and skills; expertise; competence; personal and organizational change