ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book represents a form of storytelling about working and organizing in contemporary capitalism. It presents several versions of relational ontologies—versions of performativity, sociomateriality, ANT, and affect theory—apposite for investigating a dizzying array of factors and forces associated with contemporary work and organization. The book offers communicative extensions to lines of relational thinking, portraying communication as relating/linking/connecting, as writing the trajectory of practice, and as constitutive transmission. It shows how each participant was better understood as a sociomaterial hybrid constituted by the myriad of relations articulating its meaning(s) in the practice. The book employs a vision of communicative transmission built on affect theorizing, considered occupational branding as manifest in academic publishing and commercial aviation. It also shows "the product" to be a tenuous accomplishment not reducible to human activity—one requiring the communicative stitching together of multiple agencies in advancing claims to value.
