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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fragments and links: the organisational actor-world of the Harry Potter phenomenon
AU - Bristow, Alexandra
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The article seeks to develop an Actor‐Network Theory perspective on the relationship between organization and literature by focusing on the Harry Potter phenomenon. The latter is seen as an example of how contemporary popular literature does not stop at itself, but rather supersedes itself by spinning its own truly impressive organizational actor‐network. This industrious industrial entanglement challenges what may be called the ‘disembodied’ conceptualization of literature—the conceptualization that is centred on the contents of works of fiction alone. When the contents of the literary texts are decentred in that they are taken as but one (however important) actor of the actor‐world that comes to be known by their name, other actors become more visible that help to conceptualize Harry Potter as an organizational, as much as a literary, phenomenon.
AB - The article seeks to develop an Actor‐Network Theory perspective on the relationship between organization and literature by focusing on the Harry Potter phenomenon. The latter is seen as an example of how contemporary popular literature does not stop at itself, but rather supersedes itself by spinning its own truly impressive organizational actor‐network. This industrious industrial entanglement challenges what may be called the ‘disembodied’ conceptualization of literature—the conceptualization that is centred on the contents of works of fiction alone. When the contents of the literary texts are decentred in that they are taken as but one (however important) actor of the actor‐world that comes to be known by their name, other actors become more visible that help to conceptualize Harry Potter as an organizational, as much as a literary, phenomenon.
KW - organization
KW - literature
KW - fiction
KW - Actor-Network Theory
KW - heterogeneity
KW - Complexity
U2 - 10.1080/14759550701676429
DO - 10.1080/14759550701676429
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 313
EP - 325
JO - Culture and Organization
JF - Culture and Organization
SN - 1475-9551
IS - 4
ER -