“…To be sure, this particular contamination took place via distortion, displacement, unexpected references, allusions, irony and other ways of poetic imagination – the stuff that orthodox forms of theorizing avoid like the plague. For related manoeuvres on the cusp of organizational theory and literary imagination, one can point to contemporary works such as David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (Michaelson, 2015a), Richard Power’s organizational novel Gain (Latour, 2005), Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day (Beyes, 2009), Austrian writer Kathrin Röggla’s fictionalization of ‘the capitalist uncanny’ (Clarke, 2011) or Tom McCarthy’s take on corporate anthropology, Satin Island (Beyes, 2017), to reference but a few.…”