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This article is a synoptic review of the recent work of Paul Virilio, conducted through the book, City of Panic. I point to the problems with the increasingly apocalyptic content and tone of Virilio's work on modernity by referring to recent social science research on the city that makes it possible to construct a somewhat more hesitant account, not least, or so I argue, because hesitant accounts are closer to the way the world is.

This paper acts as a commentary on and an extension to the preceding papers. It argues that time can be fully taken into account in organization studies only by understanding temporal fields as processes of progressive practical imitation, in the manner of tarde. this argument is illustrated by considering various management innovations of the past century or so.

The author argues for the continued efficacy of the notion of political economy. He challenges the commonplace assumption that capitalism is fixed & constant in nature. Rather, capitalism is intrinsically fluid & contextual, always adapting & deferring completion. He then examines the so-called "new economy," increasingly professionalized, financialized, & spatially dynamic. The new political economy has also impelled new modes of resistance to corporatism, demonstrated in the interdisciplinary discourses across the social sciences & humanities. He calls on fellow academics & intellectuals to write critically in the same fluid, immanent, & dynamic mode that defines the capitalist present. K. Coddon