About the Aesth/ethics Reality of Organisations: The Visitors
摘要
This chapter explores how the aestheticization of power can lead to exclusion, but also offer unprecedented opportunities for shared experiences. Ragnar Kjartansson’s installation The Visitors illustrates this alternative well: isolated musicians, connected by headphones, produce a fragile harmony, a metaphor for contemporary organizational life. This work anticipates social distancing and reflects the dilemmas of remote working. It highlights the specificities of teamwork beyond prescribed and controlled work. Collaboration appears here as a pathic process, based on solidarity between beings rather than on instrumental rationality alone. The articulation between solitude and community becomes central, illustrating the physical and subjective dimension of all work. This mode of cooperation is part of an ethics of affectivity, where giving and hospitality take precedence over utilitarian logic. In this sense, The Visitors offers a critical allegory of contemporary organizations and re-enchants collective work through art and desire, proposing a new creative horizon for rethinking the ethics of collaborative work.