Edouard Pignot

@article{pignot_1672,

title = {Affective Politics and Technology Buy-In: A Framework of Social, Political, and Fantasmatic Logics},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol21/iss4/6/},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

journal = {Journal Of The Association For Information Systems},

volume = {21},

number = {4},

pages = {901-935},

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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@article{pignot_1671,

title = {Bringing down the house (of Goldman Sachs): Analyzing corrupt forms of trading with Lacan},

author = {Edouard Pignot},

url = {http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/bringing-down-house-goldman-sachs-analyzing-corrupt-forms-trading-lacan},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-05-01},

journal = {Ephemera},

volume = {15},

number = {2},

pages = {387-409},

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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