Edouard Pignot

@conference{pignot_3710,

title = {Imagining the future, preserving the status quo: Techno-political hype and the case of Bitcoin in El Salvador},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {https://essexsummerschool.com/summer-school-facts/courses/ess-2025-course-list/2i-applying-discourse-theory/},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-07-01},

booktitle = {Applying Discourse Theory - Politics, Ideology, Populism},

address = {Colchester, UK},

abstract = {The structure of the paper is as follows. First, we review the concept of hype, moving from media and technological hype to the sociology of expectations. Second, we introduce key Lacanian and post-Lacanian concepts - such as the imaginary, fantasmatic logics, and populist hype - to deepen our theoretical framework. After a brief methodological note, we examine the rise and fall of Bitcoin in El Salvador. This case study allows us to explain the failure of this early adoption attempt and to outline possible alternative scenarios. Finally, we reflect on the relationship between techno-political hype and innovation, before concluding with a discussion of the paper's limitations.},

note = {21/07/2025 au 25/07/2025},

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pubstate = {accepted},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_3709,

title = {Politics and organizations in the making: Alain Badiou's perspective},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/assets/documents/OAP-workshop-programme-2.0.pdf},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-06-01},

booktitle = {Ordinary Democracy in the Making: Renewing our times and spaces of democratic representation in and through organization},

address = {London, UK},

abstract = {This paper explores antiwork politics through the ideas of philosopher Alain Badiou. We draw on the social movement literature to frame antiwork as a politics that oscillates between

contention and prefiguration. To understand how workers negotiate this tension, we introduce

Badiou's notions of the political subject, event, and affects. Precisely, we investigate how

anxiety and courage function as forms of affective coping that underpin resistance to work,

critique, and transformation. Empirically, we analyze digital discourse within the subreddit

r/antiwork as a platform for sharing dissatisfaction about current work conditions, particularly

during the Covid-19 pandemic - a trend broadly known as the ?Great Resignation?. By

interpreting r/antiwork politics through Badiou's axiomatic framework, our approach identifies

four attitudes (terror, skepticism, dogmatism, and confidence) that improve our understanding

of the affective and political dynamics underlying the antiwork movement. In addition to

providing a fine-grained, empirical illustration of Badiou's thought and a model applicable to

alternative empirical studies, we reflect on the relevance of his philosophy for the study of

social movements and conclude with directions for future research.},

note = {04/06/2025 au 06/06/2025},

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pubstate = {online},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2144,

title = {Anti-work as affective commons: dogmatism, confidence, scepticism, and terror},

author = {Edouard Pignot and Thomas Lennerfors},

url = {https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1658501434997&subtheme_id=1637466415495},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

booktitle = {38th EGOS colloquium},

address = {Cagliari, Italy},

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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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2145,

title = {Serious game design as control practice},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {https://www.essec.edu/en/news/management-control-practice-workshop-temporal-perspectives/},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-10-01},

booktitle = {Control-as-Practice workshop},

address = {Paris, France},

organization = {ESSEC Business School},

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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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2146,

title = {Engaging with emotions in sociomaterial practices: An affect-based model of agency},

author = {Edouard Pignot and Mark Thompson},

url = {https://workshopoap.dauphine.fr},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-06-01},

booktitle = {Organization, Artefacts, Practices Workshop},

address = {San Francisco, United States},

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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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2561,

title = {Organizing desire through technology: authenticity and new forms of informal control? Paper in progress},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {2019 Organization Studies Workshop},

address = {Mykonos, Grèce},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2560,

title = {Affect as a mediator in socio-material practices: A tri-partite model of decentered agency},

author = {Edouard Pignot and Mark Thompson},

url = {None},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {IFIP 8.2 Working Conference},

address = {San Francisco, USA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2562,

title = {The true power of games: A study of developers' affective and ethical modes of engagement at work},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {33rd EGOS colloquium},

address = {Copenhagen},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2563,

title = {IT design as a vanishing and foregrounding performance: from immersive to open virtual learning environment},

author = {Edouard Pignot and Simeon Vidolov and Stefan Klein},

url = {None},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {10th International Critical Management Studies Conference},

address = {Liverpool},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2564,

title = {Ideological materiality in organizations: Rethinking the relationship between affect, work and technolog},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP)},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2565,

title = {Ideology is the Engine: How fantasy and political subjectivity play out when designing serious games and virtual worlds},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Quadrangular Conference on Technology, Organizations and Society},

address = {London},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2568,

title = {Ideology is the engine: How fantasy and political enjoyment play out in the choice and adoption of game technologies},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {30th EGOS colloquium},

address = {Rotterdam},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2566,

title = {Analyzing corrupt forms of trading at Goldman Sachs: A Lacanian approach},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/19497427/call-for-papers-reworking-lacan-at-work-2-escp-europe},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

booktitle = {Reworking Lacan at Work},

address = {Paris},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2567,

title = {Is serious-games design political? The competing logics at stake when choosing and adopting a game engine??},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications},

address = {Bournemouth},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{pignot_2569,

title = {The ideology of the virtual and the practice of serious gaming},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {None},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-01-01},

booktitle = {EDAMBA Summer Academy (European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration)},

address = {Sorèze},

abstract = {None},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}