Investigating the structural transformation of the public sphere should reckon with the secret and its modes of organization. The expansion of secrecy effected by the infrastructures, platforms, and applications of media technology is constitutive for the emergence and transformation of ‘digital publics’. Offering a rereading of Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere that is attuned to the organizational principle of secrecy, this paper discusses current notions of mediated publics in juxtaposition with the redoubling of media-technological and organizational secrecy at (...) work in platform society. How are illegibility, opacity and unavailability organized? Instead of assuming accountability, publicity and transparency as epistemological a priori, investigating the transformation of the public sphere would benefit from adopting epistemes of secrecy and opacity. (shrink)

_The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education_ retraces the many external crises that have increasingly confronted business schools in recent years. With greater emphasis being placed on ranking and research output at the detriment of teaching, learning and education, this companion will work as a handbook, guiding teachers on how to integrate the humanities and social sciences into their course design and classroom practice. Arranged in five sections covering Histories, Philosophies, Concepts, Classrooms and Programmes, this volume presents and examines the (...) rich debates that have arisen on the practices within management education. With contributions from leading and international scholars in the field, this volume seeks to engage in the conversation over what is taught in business schools and how learning in them takes place, concluding that it is time to reinvent management education by positioning the humanities and social sciences in the discussion. The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education is a timely volume that will interest students and researchers alike. It is particularly well place for the current zeitgeist of subjecting business and management to wider and deeper scrutiny from a range of different perspectives. (shrink)

Writings on counterpublics, publicness and the public realm present a theoretical and empirical dialectic of a public sphere in the singular and multiple counterpublics. We update and relocate this interplay by situating our paper in present-day Russia and the protests against the invasion of Ukraine. Through exemplary scenes of counterpublicness, and drawing upon Russian and Western scholarship, we develop a notion of counterpublics as a minimal condition of organization understood as the collective capacity to act. If the public sphere designates (...) a controlled theatre for the organization of social experience, then the self-organized and dispersed struggle to enable moments of publicness keeps alive and rehearses political organizing under dire conditions. (shrink)