Modes of organization

Willmott, 1993), what has arguably been distinctive in the more recent turn to ontology has been a relationship to ontological themes and questions as features of the very problems of organization with which we are engaged - including the discursive mobilisation of such ontological conceptions within everyday organizational practices and relations (e.g. Mol, 2002; Holbraad & Pedersen, 2017).1 As we will be exploring further below, this renewed ontological interest has also included a related concern with the potentials for philosophical inquiry, not to legislate the ontological grounds for our inquiries, but to hold open the conceptual spaces within which such ontological plurality may be both navigated and sustained (e.g. Latour, 2011, 2013; cf. From a modal ontological perspective, a chair does not have a specific 'essence', defined as the common characteristics of all chairs, that would precede the thing itself. [...]the chair does not have to comply with a set of generic characteristics in order to qualify as a proper chair. How can the essence of human beings be transmitted into a single person? Yet, despite this attempt, Agamben argues that the passage from the potential to the actual remains 'problematic' (2015: 157), since the relationship in Aristotelian metaphysics is ambiguous. [...]the connection between what a thing is (matter) and what it can become (form) remains unresolved.