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Aesthetics and the paradoxical supremacy of ethics in organizational life

Antonio Strati

Journal of Political Power2025https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2025.2466085article
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What I am illustrating and discuss in this brief essay is an organizational paradox, that of the ethical censorship of the aesthetic dimension, raised during ordinary practices of organizational communication and related to my recent photographic book Riviera Mediterranea. This paradox stimulated reflections on the intimate link between the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of organizational life. My argument is that we can critically explore the paradox of the supremacy of the ethical dimension over the aesthetic one in organizing by moving away from treating it as a ‘grand theme’ and focusing, instead, on the subtle connections between aesthetics and ethics in the daily practices of artistic creation.

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@article{antonio2025,
  title        = {{Aesthetics and the paradoxical supremacy of ethics in organizational life}},
  author       = {Antonio Strati},
  journal      = {Journal of Political Power},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2025.2466085},
}

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