Celebrating Success: Dr Victoria Pagan

Congratulations to Dr Victoria Pagan on her paper ‘Fantasy to (evade) order: vicarious schadenfreude’ which will be published in ephemera: theory and politics in organisation shortly.

Abstract: In this note I begin to develop an argument for critical organization scholars that suggests how connecting dark, arguably disordered, emotions with fantasy enables both order and the evasion of order of self. Such a connection with fantasy is not dismantling order, but is enabling a productive evasion. Specifically, through this note I offer some thoughts about transforming one disordered emotion, fury, into a more ordered yet still disordered emotion that I term vicarious schadenfreude, through the fantasy poetry of Dante’s Inferno.