Anais Djouad

The Hypermodernity Factory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The digital regime and its bio-anthropotechnology, characteristic of hypermodernity, are giving rise to unprecedented living and working conditions. Relational, inter-individual and exchange systems are being transformed. Technologies bring new ways of communicating, speaking, writing, organizing and controlling tasks. They are explicit, but their reticularities also operate invisibly, underground. However, they define powerful norms for work. Beyond the digital object, at the heart of the computerization process of the last fifty years in France, a progressive transformation of the work regime has taken place. As our social ecologies adapt, adopt, conform and metamorphose, conflict, polemics and sometimes creative resistance emerge. The Hypermodernity Factory is based on an investigation carried out within an administrative department of Inria (the French public institute for research into information technology and techniques) - then in the midst of a social crisis - to discern psychic and collective individuation processes, in a context of instability and specific communication difficulties. Immersed in these almost disruptive anthropotechnical conditions, and subject to unavoidable processes of subjectivation, the subject of office life, from manager to employee, finds themselves in a confused situation; they are constantly living a complex experience of their own in the hybrid, dynamic evolution of the digital regime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781786309167
• ISBN-10: 1786309165
• Artikelnr.: 75341280

Autorenporträt

Anaïs Djouad, after various assignments in the public and private sectors, became a game designer during the serious games boom. In 2022, she defended her sociology thesis at the EHESS; she is now a sociologist and teacher.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Company, Employees, Society and Technology 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Competitive spirit and modern management 7
1.3 The information revolution 9
1.4 What about corporate spirit today? 12
1.5 Max Weber and neo-dogmatism 15
1.5.1 Adaptations and ecosocial constraints 15
1.5.2 Social strategies 17
1.5.3 Social and environmental responsibility 20
1.6 Digital transition and managerial ideology 30
1.6.1 The new corporate spirit: a myth 31
1.6.2 The actors, the network: when work becomes adjustment 36
Chapter 2 Workplace Computerization Strategies and Neo-management 39
2.1 Introduction 39
2.2 From telematics to management information systems 46
2.2.1 Digital relational and communication systems as ideological drivers
of hypermodern management 51
2.2.2 Sociology and telecommunications 62
2.2.3 Control and self-control, a culture of keeping track 67
2.3 Cognition and telecommunication 73
2.3.1 The actor at work, acting in a network 77
2.3.2 A new truth regime for work 80
2.4 Information and communication technologies, known as "ICT" 83
2.4.1 Neo-management 85
2.4.2 The employee and the manager 91
2.4.3 Institutionalization of management 92
2.4.4 Newspeak and information and communication technologies 92
Chapter 3 Inria: Organizational and Structural Difficulties 95
3.1 Introduction 95
3.2 Access to Inria 99
3.2.1 Context of the survey 101
3.2.2 Employees 103
3.2.3 Ecosystem 1: the DGDT 105
3.2.4 Ecosystem 2: Cvstene 107
3.3 Eco-sociology, eco-sociality 112
3.3.1 Dependencies between Cvstene and the DGDT 112
3.3.2 Geography 113
3.3.3 Presentation of the cohort for each ecosystem 114
3.3.4 Relationship crises 118
3.4 The DGDT: new organization, new geographies 118
3.4.1 Collective identities 118
3.4.2 Intermediate spaces of collective identities 126
3.4.3 Individuality and the absence of groups 137
Chapter 4 Struggling Ecosystems 139
4.1 Conceptual approach from the perspective of hypermodernity 139
4.1.1 Emphasis on the theory of actors and its limitations in the
technological era 143
4.1.2 Constructing a typology of our subjects 144
4.1.3 Sociology of uses of the hypermodern worker 145
4.2 Neomanagement and mechanical difficulties 146
4.2.1 Crises and emergencies 147
4.2.2 Management of the spirit of collaboration 152
4.2.3 Change management and weaknesses 152
4.3 Source subjects of the groups 155
4.3.1 Individual personalities within groups 156
4.3.2 Suffering and doubts 160
4.4 Organizational apparatus: membership and implementation of the project
161
4.5 Altered reality: managerial language and the subordination of meaning
163
Conclusion 171
References 183
Index 211