Dialectics? A Note on the Politics of Thought

In the introductory Part I outlined the main argument of this book, which problematizes the question of positioning within organization theory. I argued that the question of positioning organization is related to the concept of hegemony, which describes the project of positioning as impossibility. A conception of the impossibility of organization, however, is not part of a so called postmodern project of political relativism. Instead, it opens up and even demands possibilities of radical social change that involve questions of political strategies of organization. In Part II of this book I will discuss a range of philosophies that will allow me to conceptualize the impossibility of organization. As will become apparent, impossibility has something to do with speculation, and all philosophies discussed in this part of the book are speculative in nature in the sense that they negate, or deposition, established positions and explore possibilities of affirmatively creating new positions. I will argue that it is this simultaneity of depositioning and repositioning that characterize the event of politics described by these philosophies.