ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationships between words and things, and sociality and things within unfolding organisational practices. It demonstrates using an analytic approach derived from discursive psychology, how archives configure interdependencies between persons and things within organisational practices. If models of the social are things that participants use and thus things to be analysed and explained, rather than things we draw upon to make sense of interaction, it follows that the role and use of Computer mediated communication (CMC) in organisational settings are up for re-negotiation. Without the non-discursive labour of forging relations between components in the archive there is no possibility for playing out the evidencing strategies which dominate the manager's rhetorical performance of the past. The role of electronic archives in resourcing disputes arising from contested formulations shows how the maintenance of electronic archives requires the enrolling of other subjects, and the sustaining of networks of artefacts.
