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| Author: | Knox, H. (et al.) |
| Title: | Enacting airports: Space, movement and modes of ordering |
| Journal: | Organization
2008 : NOV, VOL. 15:6, p. 869-888 |
| Index terms: | United Kingdom international airports |
| Freeterms: | digital reserve modes of ordering space flow flux |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Nowadays, airports seem to be privileged and distinctive sites of organization, constitutive of what Castells calls a 'space of flows' that is helping to extend and integrate the so-called 'network age' of global economy and 'glocal' culture. Based on original empirical research at Fulchester International Airport, this paper deals with the movement of various subjects and objects, incl. passengers, bags and aeroplanes as they are (dis)assembled by 'modes of ordering' to ease the flows of exchange and interaction. Explored are the ways in which digital information and communications technology creates 'spectral' and uncanny phenomena feeding back into the here-and-now of mundane, organizational reality. It is found that an emergent hybridity btw. the dimensions of the virtual and the real opens up an intensive space that appears to extend the becoming of a 'post-human' ontology, yet, in so doing it also provokes the return of a opposing and unpredictable mass. |
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