Technology and the Simultaneous Collapsing and Expanding of Organizational Space: A COVID-19 Experience

This chapter argues that recent advances in the field of neurosciences have provided added support to the thesis that organizational space is both simultaneously collapsed and expanded thanks to ICT as far as our experience is concerned. I first present the findings of my research on the experience of space by academics before showing how neuroscientists have provided—perhaps unwittingly—support for the phenomenology of perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Support for specific key concepts of Merleau-Ponty is focused on before showing how the concept of the Bayesian brain helps explain the experience of organizational space, both proximate and remote.