Hypermodernity Factory

Anaïs Djouad, after various assignments in the public and private sectors, became a game designer during the serious games boom. In 2022, she defended her sociology thesis at the EHESS; she is now a sociologist and teacher.

• Introduction ixChapter 1 Company, Employees, Society and Technology 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Competitive spirit and modern management 71.3 The information revolution 91.4 What about corporate spirit today? 121.5 Max Weber and neo-dogmatism 151.5.1 Adaptations and ecosocial constraints 151.5.2 Social strategies 171.5.3 Social and environmental responsibility 201.6 Digital transition and managerial ideology 301.6.1 The new corporate spirit: a myth 311.6.2 The actors, the network: when work becomes adjustment 36Chapter 2 Workplace Computerization Strategies and Neo-management 392.1 Introduction 392.2 From telematics to management information systems 462.2.1 Digital relational and communication systems as ideological drivers of hypermodern management 512.2.2 Sociology and telecommunications 622.2.3 Control and self-control, a culture of keeping track 672.3 Cognition and telecommunication 732.3.1 The actor at work, acting in a network 772.3.2 A new truth regime for work 802.4 Information and communication technologies, known as “ICT” 832.4.1 Neo-management 852.4.2 The employee and the manager 912.4.3 Institutionalization of management 922.4.4 Newspeak and information and communication technologies 92Chapter 3 Inria: Organizational and Structural Difficulties 953.1 Introduction 953.2 Access to Inria 993.2.1 Context of the survey 1013.2.2 Employees 1033.2.3 Ecosystem 1: the DGDT 1053.2.4 Ecosystem 2: Cvstene 1073.3 Eco-sociology, eco-sociality 1123.3.1 Dependencies between Cvstene and the DGDT 1123.3.2 Geography 1133.3.3 Presentation of the cohort for each ecosystem 1143.3.4 Relationship crises 1183.4 The DGDT: new organization, new geographies 1183.4.1 Collective identities 1183.4.2 Intermediate spaces of collective identities 1263.4.3 Individuality and the absence of groups 137Chapter 4 Struggling Ecosystems 1394.1 Conceptual approach from the perspective of hypermodernity 1394.1.1 Emphasis on the theory of actors and its limitations in the technological era 1434.1.2 Constructing a typology of our subjects 1444.1.3 Sociology of uses of the hypermodern worker 1454.2 Neomanagement and mechanical difficulties 1464.2.1 Crises and emergencies 1474.2.2 Management of the spirit of collaboration 1524.2.3 Change management and weaknesses 1524.3 Source subjects of the groups 1554.3.1 Individual personalities within groups 1564.3.2 Suffering and doubts 1604.4 Organizational apparatus: membership and implementation of the project 1614.5 Altered reality: managerial language and the subordination of meaning 163Conclusion 171References 183Index 211