Organization Identity Location: A poetic for cargo carriers in a globalized world

Abstract

This paper takes up the challenge of trying to express, largely in textual terms, a poetic for organization through collage. The implicit argument is that there is a complex interdependence between concepts of organization, identity and location and that this can be productively examined by a creative, poetic approach. The concepts of organization, identity and location as conceptual, material and/or temporal have being examined by many theorists, but the way in they are presented and related to one another here –that is to say, a poetic that turns on the concept of cargo– is novel. It is intended to provoke unease as well as delight and the sort of reflection that doesn’t sit easily within the core of disciplines and institutions. It exploits the awkward and beautiful juxtapositions that can happen when ideas from different places meet.