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Hi Pamela, hi David, hi all, I second enthusiastically!!!!!! Pedro At 02:39 PM 9/1/2005, DAVID Cowan wrote: >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. >________________ > >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 >[log in to unmask]