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A warning to the curious: ghost signs as liminal memento-mori
- Author(s):
- Ian Rodwell (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- CityLIS, Horror, Place Studies
- Subject(s):
- Art--Environmental aspects, Ghosts in literature, Organizational sociology, Place (Philosophy), Space, Storytelling
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism
- Conf. Org.:
- University of York
- Conf. Loc.:
- York
- Conf. Date:
- 9-11 July 2019
- Tag(s):
- Ghost signs, Liminality, organizational culture, Art and environment, Organization theory, Space and place
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8c08-x797
- Abstract:
- This conference paper explores ghost signs: the faded adverts for brands, organisations and services that we see inked or carved on walls or above shops. I discuss: 1. the liminality of ghosts and ghosts signs – and the ways we materially engage with them 2. how they flex time and, in doing so, gift us an organisational warning 3. and how, as memento mori, their ancestors – the medieval macabre art of the three living and the three dead – ambiguously suggest not only organisational decay and dissolution but also possible continuity Finally, I explore how this continuity may involve a vampiric relationship between new businesses and the old - and the possibility of organisational resurrection.
- Notes:
- Please message me if you would like a copy of the slides.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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