Mors ex Machina: Technology, Embodiment and the Organization of Destruction

Organization Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 621-641

  Bloomfield, Brian P ^a   Vurdubakis, Theo ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

embodiment; ethics; science and technology studies (STS); technology; theoretical perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930583316     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614556922     Document Type: Article

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