The article "The Sociomateriality of Organizational Life: Considering Technology in Management Research" by Wanda J. Orlikowski explores the role of technology in organizational life, particularly in the context of synthetic worlds like MPK20. Orlikowski critiques three dominant perspectives in management research on technology: absent presence, exogenous force, and emergent process. She argues that while materiality is integral to organizational activity, it has often been overlooked or treated as separate from human actors. The exogenous force perspective views technology as an external driver with predictable impacts, while the emergent process perspective emphasizes the social construction and ongoing interaction of technology. However, both perspectives share an ontology of separateness, which is challenged by recent developments in science and technology studies that advocate for a relational ontology. Orlikowski suggests that a perspective of "entanglement in practice," inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT) and sociomateriality, may offer a more useful framework for understanding the complex and dynamic interactions between humans and technology in contemporary organizations. This perspective highlights the distributed and complex sociomaterial configurations that form and perform contemporary organizations, emphasizing the need to study the materiality and social aspects of technology simultaneously.The article "The Sociomateriality of Organizational Life: Considering Technology in Management Research" by Wanda J. Orlikowski explores the role of technology in organizational life, particularly in the context of synthetic worlds like MPK20. Orlikowski critiques three dominant perspectives in management research on technology: absent presence, exogenous force, and emergent process. She argues that while materiality is integral to organizational activity, it has often been overlooked or treated as separate from human actors. The exogenous force perspective views technology as an external driver with predictable impacts, while the emergent process perspective emphasizes the social construction and ongoing interaction of technology. However, both perspectives share an ontology of separateness, which is challenged by recent developments in science and technology studies that advocate for a relational ontology. Orlikowski suggests that a perspective of "entanglement in practice," inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT) and sociomateriality, may offer a more useful framework for understanding the complex and dynamic interactions between humans and technology in contemporary organizations. This perspective highlights the distributed and complex sociomaterial configurations that form and perform contemporary organizations, emphasizing the need to study the materiality and social aspects of technology simultaneously.