Aestheticizing the World of Organization: Creating Beautiful Untrue Things
Philip Hancock. Tamara : Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. Las Cruces: 2002. Vol. 2, Iss. 1; pg. 91, 15 pgs

Introduction
The aesthetic has long endured an uneasy relationship with institutions of power and authority. For Plato (trans. 1955/1987), the subversive potential he detected in the practice of art, and the aesthetic it engendered, was sufficient for him to call for poets and performers to be banned from his ideal Republic, lest they should corrupt his guardians and future philosopher kings. For the great minds of the Enlightenment the aesthetic, something unwieldy and corporeal in its nature, threatened their idealized realm of mind and led Kant (1790/1952) to construct his elaborate philosophical system to ensure its subservience to the exercise of reason and judgement. More recently, the 19th and the 20th centuries saw a great explosion in both the emergence of art and aesthetic practice as a force of political and cultural radicalism, yet while at the same time it increasingly became the preserve of the rich and powerful to accumulate and enjoy.