ABSTRACT
From a phenomenological viewpoint the critique will take the reader back to the implicit and tacit background practices that organize our everyday experience even before conscious awareness – the world of the preconsciousness. This is intended to show that our preconscious rootedness in the world acts in a very fundamental way; providing the context that gives meaning to all conscious social activity – such as communication, learning and so forth. One could almost say they are
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depend – in a very subtle way – on their important contribution to our day-to-day sense making. To neglect these preconscious spaces of our everyday world would be to reduce experience to that which can be represented – that which can be explicitly thought. Such a view would imply a type of reductionism that impoverishes our understanding of the social. Ultimately this path would lead us to embrace contradictory positions when attempting to transform social practices – as seems to be the case with the current thinking about virtual organizations.
