The Work of Communication. Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism by Tim Kuhn, Karen Ashcraft, Francois Cooren , is a welcomed comprehensive and rigorous attempt at theorizing how communication ‘works’ in contemporary capitalism. In this essay, we review what we see as the contributions of this book – as organization scholars interested in performativity – and address the following question: What does this book perform?

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传播工作的表演阅读

通讯工作。蒂姆·库恩、凯伦·阿什克拉夫特、弗朗索瓦·库伦撰写的关于当代资本主义中工作和组织的关系视角是对当代资本主义中传播如何“运作”的理论化的全面而严谨的尝试。在这篇文章中，我们回顾了我们认为这本书的贡献——作为对表演性感兴趣的组织学者——并解决以下问题：这本书有什么作用？