ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to introduce novel modes of (re)thinking and (re)making the worlds of working and organizing, which converge under the sign of "relationality". It begins by briefly contextualizing the rise of relationality in and around the "linguistic turn" as manifest in organization studies. The chapter traces the contours of four lines of thought such as: performativity, posthumanist performativity/sociomateriality, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and affect on relationality that hold promise for thinking against the grain of the excesses organization studies has encountered in the wake of the linguistic turn. A relational ontology prioritizes the ever-evolving "relations" that make possible and recognizable the very stuff of the world. The final premise returns to the early caution about understanding relationality as an ontological reversal: from already-existing things that form relations with each other to relations that produce "things" as such.
