Order under erasure? Disorganisation and the disorganising of 'unmanaging'

Ahead of discussing the 'disorganising' effects of management's deepening alignment with money, I review how Cooper (1986) reveals the divisions of the disciplines of knowledge as di-visions. Arguing that his 'cleansing' of these disciplines conflates the 'will to order' with the 'will to purity', I adopt the term 'institution' as a way of putting 'organisation' under erasure. Returning to sociological work ignored by the 'new institutionalists' helps infuse a motility into the complexity and entanglement of social and moral orderings. In then contrasting Cooper's silence on management with my ethnographic research on 'unmanaging' (Munro, 2001, 2002), I go on to address 'double-crossing' as a method of making a 'clearing' from the modernist logic that polarises order/disorder and organisation/disorganisation into binary pairings.