Mikael Andéhn
@mikagramx.bsky.social
Social science researcher interested in counter-culture, subjectivity, consumption, and place.
Reposted by Mikael Andéhn
"Perhaps an explanation can be found in tracing the way individual career advancement has become increasingly contingent on performativity – the preoccupation with “competence-displays” over actual competence..."
🔪"A Marxist analysis reveals that at the root of the recent preoccupation with virtue lies a powerful means of domination... 'virtue theatre' controls by eliciting compliance to moral standards, but standards for which terms and conditions apply"
On signalling and control in the corporate virtue theatre
Contemporary corporate culture is typified by a remarkable interest in projecting virtue: often under the guise of promoting “inclusivity,” “sustainability” and “empowerment.” Yet, this projection ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"Perhaps an explanation can be found in tracing the way individual career advancement has become increasingly contingent on performativity – the preoccupation with “competence-displays” over actual competence..."
Reposted by Mikael Andéhn
Yesterday the first internal CHRONOS meeting was held in Bedford Square and announced our first invited speaker - the inimitable Prof. Martin Parker who will come to present his new book "The Organization of Things: A Cabinet of Curiosities" in London on the 5th of March.
February 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Yesterday the first internal CHRONOS meeting was held in Bedford Square and announced our first invited speaker - the inimitable Prof. Martin Parker who will come to present his new book "The Organization of Things: A Cabinet of Curiosities" in London on the 5th of March.
What can we learn from studying the ever more prolific anti-feminist online counter-cultures?
New article in New Media & Society:
"Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online
countercultural collectives"
with Joel Hietanen & Alice Wickström
doi.org/10.1177/1461...
New article in New Media & Society:
"Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online
countercultural collectives"
with Joel Hietanen & Alice Wickström
doi.org/10.1177/1461...
Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online countercultural collectives - Mikael Andéhn, Joel Hietanen, Alice Wickström, 2024
Advances in information and communication technologies present remarkable potential for globally dispersed people to connect and engage around a variety of inte...
doi.org
December 25, 2024 at 12:40 PM
What can we learn from studying the ever more prolific anti-feminist online counter-cultures?
New article in New Media & Society:
"Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online
countercultural collectives"
with Joel Hietanen & Alice Wickström
doi.org/10.1177/1461...
New article in New Media & Society:
"Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online
countercultural collectives"
with Joel Hietanen & Alice Wickström
doi.org/10.1177/1461...