fully support this lady as acorn member
she is doing VERY innovative work implying new vistas on art consumption
and, in prolonguation of this project, reassessment of what cultural policy
migth be about...talk to and mail her and you will be amazed...
pierre
----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVID Cowan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:39 PM
Subject: outstanding AACORN Candidate!
At the Academy of Management Meetings in Hawaii a few weeks ago, I crossed
paths in Academy Arts with Pamela Nybacka It took me very little time to
realize that she is an excellent candidate for AACORN. Consequently, I
talked with her briefly about this and, accordingly, now nominate her for
membership. Below in Pamela's rich description of herself and her
work/life -- you will discover myriad reasons to support my nomination and
to welcome her aboard. Cheers, David C.
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My name is Pamela Schultz Nybacka and I am a PhD candidate at Stockholm
University School of Business, Sweden. My supervisors are Professor Pierre
Guillet de Monthoux - some of you are bound to know him - and Thomas Bay. My
educational background is twofold: literature on one hand and business
administration on the other. I am also a Project Manager of the research
project Bookonomy and it revolves around the specific economy and organizing
of books. My research interests range from art, aesthetics, book studies,
art management, organizational change, consumer practices, cultural policy,
etc.
Current research...
In my dissertation project I am working with reading groups among others,
and in order to complement the group interviews I have let the readers
visualize their embodied and contextualized reading practices by means of
drawings and/or paintings. Since reading groups are a social and collective
book phenomenon I figured that I needed a method that could capture this
quality. Hence, I let the members from two reading groups do paintings
together, and just as I hoped, the resulting images completely threw me out
of my orbit and generated a completely different theoretical perspective for
my work. Suddenly, Georges Bataille's notion of "general economy" struck me
as particularly important... Also, the method has made me think a lot about
the ways to re/present these images and I feel a increasing need to discuss
these matters with fellow researchers.
Anyhow, art and aesthetics seem to be what make my life and research tick.
(Even when I write papers for ordinary PhD courses, I find myself writing
about these things.) Regarding aesthetics, so far I have written one paper
(in addition to my dissertation) that is currently under review. In that
paper, I allowed myself to be critical of aesthetics within organization
studies, trying to acknowledge and problematize the limits of Kantian (and
Aristotelian) aesthetics. Having done that, I am now keen to continue with
research on the concept of "impossible aesthetics", a concept that may prove
to be complementary to my study of art/culture and excess (which is very
much Bataille so far...). I also plan to engage in a project that revolves
around the economy of everyday life play and creativity, a project that I
hope may be of interest to the network of AACORNians (?).
At present, I am finalizing my PhD and will be finished by the next summer
(2006). I am on the international job market and hope to go someplace where
I can continue my research and teaching in the arts. I will also apply for
post-doctoral grants and fellowships too. (Any ideas and advice on the
subject matter is welcome.)
... and other currents
I have just installed a sewing machine in my living room, and rediscovered
the joys of sewing for myself and my family. My research gives a lot of
input to my ideas for sewing. I have never enjoyed shopping much, but with
the sewing machine I go into a hypnotic state and create stuff in completely
unpredictable ways... It is more a matter of sculpting, you know. Just like
everything else... :-D
Wishful and wistful regards,
Pamela
David A. Cowan, Professor
Management Department
School of Business
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-3689...office
(513) 529-6992...fax
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