In times in which the imperative of chance is ubiquitous and in which continuous and intense reforms permeate public and private sectors, little attention is given to the small traces and minor struggles of the past, which continues to linger at the boundary of organization and management. This seminar explores the disorderly, the unexplainable, the uncanny qualities of reform processes and of organizational life more generally. It attends to all the different sorts of ‘absent-presences’ that haunt, disrupt, distort, trouble, and bother the smooth functioning of work life and of linear conceptions of time.