Desk Killer

bristol | corporations | event notice Tuesday October 13, 2009 11:47 by Jane trowell - PLATFORM - C Words

A lecture-performance on the psychology of white-collar genocidal behaviour

17 OCT, 2 - 6pm, Arnolfini. For the C Words season, Dan Gretton (PLATFORM) shares his research into the world of the bureaucrats, planners and business people who colluded in the Holocaust (currently in development as a book - The Desk Killer), and how this relates to current business practice. Admission Free. Booking Recommended

In this event he asks whether the psychology and behaviour that enabled genocide to occur during the Third Reich is still present today, in the institutional culture of transnational corporations? Dan also will be focussing on the emotional 'compartmentalisation' that is a feature of both perpetrator psychology and corporate psychology. Lecture-Performance plus discussion.