ABSTRACT

The concept of the gaze plays an important role in (post)colonial organizational analysis. It addresses dynamics of looking and being seen, particularly as they pertain to knowledge and identity. Drawing on Derrida’s writing on spectrality as it intersects with text and aesthetics, we chart a theoretical framework with which we broaden and deepen extant approaches to the gaze. We illustrate its organizational dynamics across two vignettes that examine writing on the Sphinx by Hegel and Mark Twain. Our work broadens the literature on the gaze with a new view on the (re)production of presence and absence. It also deepens reflection by outlining how the occupation of concern is shaped by interested blindness and unease at a gaze from a specter. These insights invite reconsideration of extant views on knowledge and identity within (post)colonial organizational analysis and inspire reflection on how scholars can participate in tracing the organization of geographies of concern.

摘要

注视的概念在（后）殖民组织分析中起着重要作用。它解决了观感和被观察的动力，特别是与知识和身份有关的动力。借鉴德里达关于光谱与文字和美学相交的著作，我们绘制了一个理论框架，通过该框架我们可以拓宽和深化现有的凝视方法。我们通过两个小插图来说明其组织动态，这些小插图检查了黑格尔和马克·吐温在狮身人面像上的写作。我们的工作以（重新）产生存在和不存在的新观点拓宽了凝视的文献。通过概述感兴趣的失明和对幽灵的凝视的不安，概述了关注的职业，从而加深了思考。