The exercise of power by parrhesia: a proposal of organizational analytics
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The aim of this essay was to explore aspects of the notion of parrhesia developed by Foucault and to outline a proposal for organizational analytics. This author's work goes through three main thematic axes: analysis of the modalities of veridiction (truth). analysis of governmentality procedures (power); and the analysis of the techniques of subjectivity formation (subjectivation). The notion of parrhesia, the truth-telling, articulates these three displacements, analyzing the exercise of power through the enunciation of truth in the constitution of the subject himself and in the conduct of others (the government of self and others). The notion of parrhesia involves a practical ethical dimension of truth, as well as a complex analysis of power relations in an agonistic game amid clash, rivalry, and differentiation. Thus, after the discussion about the notion of parrhesia we present a proposal of organizational analytics based on this notion, considering its ethical and political implications for the approach on organizational practices.
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