THE CURIOUS ORGANISATIONAL WORLD OF IMAGINATION, ART AND THE PRECARIAT: IMAGINING A FRIEND

Resumo

I want to take license as a writer and researcher here, mixing the real, the poetic and imaginative, to reflect upon my collaborative work with my colleague and friend, Professor Marcelo Milano Vieira. Sadly, his joy, academic zeal and physical presence are not with us anymore. He left us untimely to wonder on questions that touch our human (organisational) sensibilities. Undoubtedly, his legacy to the study of organisation in Brazil is unquestionable but in this essay, I want to concentrate instead in our recent encounters and dialogues about the arts, precariousness and organisation studies in Brazil and Latin America. These discussions (together with Professor Katarzyna Kosmala) concluded in a book project (under construction) that brings together different disciplinary strands from art to organisation studie