bomphiologia
Exaggeration done in a self-aggrandizing manner, as a braggart.
A ‘postmodern’ boss insists that he is not a master but just a coordinator of our joint creative efforts, the first among equals; there should be no formalities among us, we should address him by his nickname, he shares a dirty joke with us etc., but in all this, he remains our master. With such social links, relations of domination function through their denial: we are not only obliged to obey our masters, we are also obliged to act as if we are free and equal, as if there is no domination – which, of course, makes the situation even more humiliating. Paradoxically, in such a situation, the first act of liberation is to demand from the master that he acts as one: one should reject false collegiality from the master and insist that he treats us with cold distance, as a master. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/hut14l316704u631/fulltext.html]
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