Corporeal ethics

Corporeal ethics is a politically productive way of thinking about ethics, offering a valuable new perspective on the ethical and political dimensions of innovation. It attends to how ethics is grounded in an embodied experience that occurs prior to rational calculation and responds openly and generously to the needs of others through the interpersonal and collective movement of bodies. In organizations, such ethics manifests in social relations that resist power's tendency to dominate and emboldens the possibility of joyous encounters between people. Corporeal ethics is the basis for a response to the injustice of inequality through the organization of ethics in the context of political action. Through such action, ethics becomes translated into politics and demands that we care for each other and act on it in the pursuit of justice. Corporeal ethics becomes relevant to innovation by providing a means through which to consider how innovation processes are essentially inter-human and can result in outcomes that are both just and unjust.