Edouard Pignot is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Psychology at EMLV Business School. He holds a PhD in Organization Studies from Warwick Business School, UK. In the past, he has held research and teaching position at the European Research Center for Information Systems, Münster University in Germany and at the Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science (PBS), London School of Economics, in the United Kingdom. His research investigates the place of affect and emotions in the digital space, namely the relationship between information technologies and our ways of organizing. His empirical inquiry draws on ethnographic studies of digital phenomena (e. g. gamification, blockchain, algorithmic management), plus observation and archives, to develop new theories to the information and organizational discipline. He has published in journals such as Journal of Association for Information Systems, Organization, Ephemera or The Conversation.
Edouard Pignot
Who is pulling the strings in the platform economy? Accounting for the dark and unexpected sides of algorithmic control Article de journal
Dans: Organization, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 140-167, 2023.
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abstract = {This paper aims to address the dark side perspective on digital control and surveillance by emphasizing the affective grip of ideological control, namely the process that silently ensures the subjugation of digital labour, and which keeps the ?unexpectedness' of algorithmic practices at bay: that is, the propensity of users to contest digital prescriptions. In particular, the theoretical contribution of this paper is to combine Labour Process with psychoanalytically-informed, post-structuralist theory, in order to connect to, and further our understanding of, how and why digital workers assent to, or oppose, the interpellations of algorithmic ideology at work. To illustrate the operation of affective control in the Platform Economy, the emblematic example of ride-hailing platforms, such as Uber, and their algorithmic management, is revisited. Thus, the empirical section describes the way drivers are glued to the algorithm (e.g. for one more fare, or for the next surge pricing) in a way that prevents them, although not always, from considering genuine resistance to management. Finally, the paper discusses the central place of ideological fantasy and cynical enjoyment in the Platform Economy, as well as the ethical implications of the study.},
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Edouard Pignot; Davide Nicolini; Mark Thompson
Affective Politics and Technology Buy-In: A Framework of Social, Political, and Fantasmatic Logics Article de journal
Dans: Journal Of The Association For Information Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 901-935, 2020.
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abstract = {We propose a socially informed explanation of technology framing by examining technology ?buy-in??actors' relative susceptibility to such framing. We draw on the field of critical social theory to introduce the ?Logics,? a new framework to the IS discipline that reveals a performative relationship between collective framing, power, and affect. The Logics enable us to study buy-in by revealing the differing degrees of affective self-identification that underpin and color social practices, showing their inherently political nature. We exemplify the affective as well as social politics of buy-in with an account of Unity 3D, a market-leading game engine that underwent a major repositioning from ?fringe? to ?mainstream? markets, and discuss four poles of affective positioning with which to conceptualize technology buy-in. We conclude by highlighting the consequent need for greater political and ethical awareness about the framing of IS and by proposing a framework for conceptualizing actors' orientations toward and thus possible buy-in or resistance to technology framing.},
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Edouard Pignot
Bringing down the house (of Goldman Sachs): Analyzing corrupt forms of trading with Lacan Article de journal
Dans: Ephemera, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 387-409, 2015.
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abstract = {Why do organizational members derive pleasure from being dishonest? The paper seeks to respond to this question by adopting a psychoanalytically informed approach to the analysis of how individuals perceive their own corruptness. I focus in particular on the Goldman Sachs Abacus deal, a notorious case of corruption concealed behind a facade of legality. Building on the detailed analysis of emails exchanges from within Goldman Sachs, I utilize the Lacanian concept of ?ideological fantasy' to discuss how the traders' narratives bear witness to a certain logic of fantasy that appears to fuel corrupt activities. I also examine the cover-up tactics which were adopted to camouflage the corrupt operations and make them appear licit. Corrupt performances and their cover-up are theorized as forms of self-transgressive jouissance, a simultaneously pleasurable and self- destructive practice that is needed to sustain and protect the impossible norms of the corporation.},
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Edouard Pignot; Thomas Lennerfors
Anti-work as affective commons: dogmatism, confidence, scepticism, and terror Conférence
38th EGOS colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 2023.
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abstract = {While the ideas of contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou have been largely influential on literature, art humanities, political sciences, government laws, cultural studies, and even education, geography and religion studies - including noticeable exegeses in the Anglo-Saxon world from Slavoj ?i?ek, Simon Critchley and Ed Pluth - their use in organization studies remains, perhaps startingly, marginal. Further, existing Badiouian organizational studies focus mainly on Being and Event but much less on his two other major opuses: Theory of the subject and Logics of World. The novelty of Badiou is to consider subjects at the interaction between language and psycho-sexual, traumatic experiences, which remain impossible to symbolize and thereby constitute political events. The notion of evental change does not bring about a new world on its own, but it requires a series of acts in a context, a form of faithfulness to the event - a performance which this paper further investigates.
Going beyond the current use of Badiou in organization studies, we propose a Badiouan theoretical framework to address organizational subjects' performativity, in terms of subjectivation (anxiety, courage) and subject-process (superego, justice), whose articulation gives rise to four various modes of affective acting (terror, skepticism, dogmatism and confidence). A framework comprising these modes of affective acting is aimed to support subjectivities intended to drive change in society, and to avoid those subjectivities favouring the status quo. Therefore, Badiou's approach is highly relevant for the cultivation of subjectivities promoting alternative goods, rather than focusing on critique and resistance.
To illustrate the relevance of this framework empirically, we offer a Badiouian interpretation of antiwork politics, a left-wing social movement which is either mocked or coopted by corporatism - and loses its radicality. As subjectivity is progressively manipulated and colonized by management, the novel application of Badiou's framework to the anti-work problem enables to revive the political and ethical dimension of work psychodynamics that is lost through individualistic and intra-psychic focus.},
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Edouard Pignot
Serious game design as control practice Conférence
Control-as-Practice workshop, ESSEC Business School Paris, France, 2022.
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abstract = {While the workplace literature has discussed playfulness as the nature of work as well as the designing of work, there is only limited research that focuses on how designers identify and disidentify with games over time. A Lacanian enquiry into the self-identification of serious game designers may prove particularly worthwhile, as designers first need to cope with their own fantasmatic attachment if they are to develop serious games that seduce others. A brief case study investigates this issue through the ethnographic observation of how lack, identification and fantasy are all dynamically intertwined in the context of the development of a serious medical game aimed at the elderly. The findings describe the process through which designers confront their gamified scenario, and how they overcome the resulting tension. The discussion reveals the traumatic origin of their playful fantasy, namely the affective underside of suffering and conflict. However, ethical designers resist, and eventually undo, gamification through ambivalent acting and ?crossing? the fantasy. Finally, the conclusion presents broader implications for serious game design and future avenues for empirical research in the Lacanian tradition.},
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Edouard Pignot; Mark Thompson
Engaging with emotions in sociomaterial practices: An affect-based model of agency Conférence
Organization, Artefacts, Practices Workshop, San Francisco, United States, 2022.
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abstract = {We make the case for broadening our understanding of the interaction between social and material dimensions of organizing, in order to include a more explicit engagement with emotions, which we deepen to incorporate an account of affect. We build on, and extend, some key contributions on affect theory to date within and outside IS literature, before introducing several concepts from management studies that enable a materially-informed engagement with the circulation of affect, leading to an arguably richer and more granular understanding of the relational nature of IS agency. We then apply these concepts in a short empirical vignette, in which affect plays a central role in explaining why some technologies ?make it?, whilst others do not. We conclude by discussing ontological, epistemological and practical opportunities for further research.},
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Edouard Pignot
Ideological materiality at work: A Lacanian approach Book Section
Dans: L. Introna, Kavanagh (Ed.): Beyond interpretivism new encounters with technology and organization, vol. 1, p. 93-107, Springer, Cham, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-49733-4.
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abstract = {While recent theoretical debates have foregrounded sociomaterial studies and the interpenetration between the social and the material, practice-based studies have neglected, if not omitted, the place of affect and ideology in work practice. The use of the notion of materiality causes a conflation of different ontological claims, and a conceptual clarification is needed to grasp the polysemy of materiality. This paper provides some key notions for those interested in addressing the materiality of the affective register at work. By drawing on authors such as Lacan, Althusser, Butler and the Essex Lacanian School, this paper suggests that much is to be gained by addressing two difficult but crucial notions: the materiality of the signifier and ideological fantasy.},
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Edouard Pignot
La « jouissance cynique », un moteur de l'activité des VTC Divers
The Conversation, 2021.
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