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Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context.
Flirting with Meaning
Flirting with Meaning
This invited essay considered communication more broadly (not only in organizations) and was a frank critique of any theory that presumes the possibility of “fixing” meaning. I argued instead for a view of language and meaning that both privileges and celebrates ambiguity and contingency and that, in so doing, views individuals as having a flirtatious relationship with any particular interpretation or identity.
This paper began as a panel discussion held at the National Communication Association that featured current work on language in communication. My copanelists likely expected a very different paper, one focused specifically on the language of work. But when I agreed to write, I was beginning to articulate what seemed like some important observations about language and the development ...
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