ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to make explicit the part played in certain enactment by the practices-in occurrence, mine-of getting to know the being. It discusses three of the project's ontological and organizing features—temporariness, anticipation and hybridity—to outline some of the challenges that come with trying to follow such a being. In his inquiry into modes of existence, Bruno Latour sketched out the nature of organization, which he defined as the organizing act of dispatching paradoxical scripts. As noted by S. Clegg and M. Kornberger, boundary setting is the most fundamental and simple way of organizing: in most general terms, an organization is understood as a means of ordering through the definition of the "inside" from the "outside." The temporary nature makes projects constantly intermittent and ephemeral: any realization of the project becomes a reality and therefore a destruction of the figure that it embodies. As a research method, shadowing has been increasingly used and discussed in organization studies.
