Climate ¿ Chaos ¿ Trump ¿ Brexit ¿ Terror: the apocalypse looms large in the Zeitgeist. Could
and should this not provide the fulcrum for renewing the imaginative range of organization
studies? In this volume we bring together scholars who have taken Roberto Bolañös visionary
novel 2666 as a starting point for reflections provocations and challenges to established
imaginaries. How can we cultivate and develop our attention to the violent organization of the
world without reproducing more violence? Contributors to this edited volume take on this
challenge as they seek to break through the various blind spots in the discipline of management
and organization studies. Bolañös work opens up hidden and fantastic dimensions in organization
and provides alternative spaces and associations for new and bold organizational thinking.
Variously disturbing self-destructive and abyssal these essays reflect ¿that something that
terrifies us all¿ as Bolaño wrote ¿that something that cows and spurs us on¿. We call this
something Organization 2666.
