ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the possibility that paying extended attention to a process implicated in, but rarely explicated by, those relational ontologies can pay an empirical dividend. It refers to the set of possibilities developed as communicative relationality. The chapter suggests some routes by which relational analyses of working and organizing under late capitalism might be extended by taking communication seriously. It provides a brief overview of the typical enactments of communication in studies of work and organization. The chapter outlines three versions of communication and explores the capacity of each to contribute to, or refine, the relational ontologies and, in so doing, to generate insight into working and organizing. The three versions are: the site and surface of the semiotic materializing of relations/links/connections, the articulation of agencies constituting agencement and, thus, writing of the trajectory of practice, or constitutive transmission in which language is the sociomaterial stuff that engages and transfers energies.
