1. Diagnostics of the present and second-order observation -- 2. Adapting to adaptability : the machine of transience -- 3. From membership to self-enrollment : the production of the employee who creates herself in the organizational image -- 4. Management of authentic feelings : the trembling...

This book treats seriously one of the fundamental trends characterizing contemporary institutions--namely, the inability to establish a ground from which purpose and direction can be defined. It questions the core trope of "permanent change" and exposes its emptiness in a thorough and considered...