Protext¹

¹ I would like to thank Marta Calás, Vanessa Chio, Mats Ehrnrooth, Raza Mir, Guje Sevón, Linda Smircich, Tiina Vainio and Akseil Virtanen among others for valuable appearances in texts in presence and in absence.

: the morphoses of identity, heterogeneity and synolon

Abstract

This article attempts to describe protext, the text in the process of production. What is usually seen in a text does not necessarily reveal the developments or changes of form (morphoses) during the act of textual production. Because of the mass production of straightjacket-like, monotonous texts, protext can obviously also be read as a relative to its spelling error protest. This text seeks in other words to illustrate the appearances and disappearances of different heterogeneous voices on the path of becoming (d)one, thus achieving wholeness or synolon. The text tries to uncover the ongoing dances between monism and dissemination as well as struggles between affirmation and negation. With a longing for an ending this paper was on its way to a conference on organizational discourse.

¹ I would like to thank Marta Calás, Vanessa Chio, Mats Ehrnrooth, Raza Mir, Guje Sevón, Linda Smircich, Tiina Vainio and Akseil Virtanen among others for valuable appearances in texts in presence and in absence.

¹ I would like to thank Marta Calás, Vanessa Chio, Mats Ehrnrooth, Raza Mir, Guje Sevón, Linda Smircich, Tiina Vainio and Akseil Virtanen among others for valuable appearances in texts in presence and in absence.

Notes

¹ I would like to thank Marta Calás, Vanessa Chio, Mats Ehrnrooth, Raza Mir, Guje Sevón, Linda Smircich, Tiina Vainio and Akseil Virtanen among others for valuable appearances in texts in presence and in absence.