Utopias-dystopias as sources of organizations and organizing

This article introduces the special issue on "Utopias-Dystopias as sources of organizations and organizing."We elaborate on the relevance of investigating utopias and dystopias in today's world, faced with poly-crises and a lack of imaginaries.It investigates the conditions under which utopias and dystopias can help reimagine, rethink and perform new forms of organization and organizing.Drawing on the articles, agora, and media reviews published in the special issue, we suggest four provocations to redefine organization studies: 1) epistemic, related to the broken relationship between evidence and theory; 2) anti-hegemonic, concerning the need to theorize without marginalizing; 3) post-constructivist, dealing with imagination, mystery and "what is not (yet)," and 4) post-capitalist, imagining alternatives to the current social, political and economic regimes.We then elaborate on their implications for the future of organization research.Throughout, this introduction points to a new research agenda aimed at re-engaging with utopias and dystopias through embracing the crucial role of absences and imaginaries in theorizing organizations, organizing, the disorganized and unsettled.