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Stéphanie Argerich directs this documentary portraying her
relationship with parents Stephen Kovacevich and Martha Argerich.
Being the daughter of two world-renowned classical pianists,
Stéphanie Argerich observes the struggles her mother encountered
trying to raise three children while also maintaining an
award-winning artistic career that took her across the globe. Using
family videos, Argerich traces their private history over two
decades which took them to countries including her mother's native
Argentina, Poland, Japan, her father's home in London, her mother's
new home in Belgium and Switzerland where Stéphanie now works and
lives with her elder sister, violinist Lyda Chen.
This is a book about mirrors, philosophy, art and organization. It
arises from the recognition that we are caught in the mirror. We
are under its spell and enchanted by its reflections. Mirrors
direct us without our awareness, largely because we do not perceive
them as mirrors. This is problematic because mirrors are
everywhere.This book explores a philosophy of mirrors, one that
investigates the art of painting, cartoons, architecture, music,
photography and film, as well as belching and boozing robots,
`geil' photographers, monkish cells, cesspools, hairy auditions and
clauding. Throughout, the book uses, mutilates and expands the
thoughts of philosophers like Heidegger, Sloterdijk, Deleuze,
Serres, Baudrillard and Ranciere.The philosophic journey offered
here results in new insights and unique viewpoints, which open up
the hidden, secretive world of mirrors and help us to engage in
unexplored and exciting relations with them, offering a critical
challenge to contemporary organization theory.
Organizations are caught in cliches. This means that they do not
think for themselves anymore, but rather simply copy pre-existing
ideas. This is giving rise to a world which pretends to be
knowable, predictable and mouldable, one in which cliches like
efficiency, transparency, means-ends rationality, and the strong
leader are used without further thought or critique. This is the
reason why organizations come into conflict with themselves, and
which causes a seemingly unresolvable crisis. Film, however, can
show us a totally different world. It has a subversive potency that
can wake up the viewer, making them think again, allowing them to
see a world which cannot be perceived anymore. It can show the
world as it really is again, and can enable us to break through
cliches. This book adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations,
through its use of film. With the help of philosophers like
Deleuze, Heidegger and Sloterdijk, filmmakers like the Coen
Brothers, Cronenberg, Antonioni and Tarkovsky and films like The
Big Lebowski, eXistenZ, Stalker and Playtime, a world is revealed
and explored. It shows the decisive role played by architecture,
and why managers are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
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