A provocation ... the minds of my generation of organisational theorists, insofar as they consider themselves to be writers, have been haunted by the spectre of scientific discourse, shoehorned into dry genres and bullied by audit regimes that wring out the passion and romance of thought - "the paralysing interdictions of disciplinary academic authority" (Gibbs, 2005, n.p.). Without gaiety, the science that calls us has no exuberance, it cannot jump or dance, condemned instead to a dismal existence of stern-faced earnestness (Nietzsche, 1887/2001).
What then might the possibilities be for writing in and from the business school in a manner that might somehow allow the heart's instincts to be followed, and the vast possibilities of expression to be explored and enjoyed? I want to explore this by sidestepping into a domain of scholarly endeavour from the humanities known as fictocriticism - a writing that engages in genre-bending as a means of literary and theoretical engagement with existence and selfhood (Muecke, 2002). But why try to import this term into the dry terrain of organisation studies? Is fictocriticism a naming device that might have some value to 'us' who locate ourselves here? ...
� Muecke, S. (2002) The Fall: Fictocritical Writing. Parallax, 25: 108-112.
� Nietzche, F. (1887/2001) The Gay Science, Oxford University Press.