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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2011 
Volume 9 
Issue 1-2

Rubik or Rubric: The Cube as Bridge

Christopher Hartt
Saint Mary’s University, Sobey School of BusinessSaint Mary’s University, Sobey School of Business, Canada

2011 9 (1-2) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstract

Obsession/addiction may serve as bridges from Sartre’s “being in itself”, as epitomized by the discouraged worker effect of our ex-navy “cuber”, through a cyber-island of “being for itself” where the obsession/addiction of the cube forces externalization (Sartre, 1943 (2003)). Ultimately the need to demonstrate proficiency causes the obsessed to journey across another bridge and identify with a “being for others”. The discussion is situated in a modern world rendered liquid through change and the need to change. The illiquid being in a liquid modernity is insoluble and precipitates. The discouraged worker is such an illiquid being in itself.

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Hartt, Christopher (2011). Rubik or Rubric: The Cube as Bridge. (2011). Rubik or Rubric: The Cube as Bridge. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 9(1-2), 61-68. (Original work published 2011)

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Hartt, Christopher. “Rubik Or Rubric: The Cube As Bridge”. 2011. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 9, no. 1-2, 2011, pp. 61-68.

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Hartt, Christopher. “Rubik Or Rubric: The Cube As Bridge”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 9, no. 1-2 (2011): 61-68.