Current preoccupations Much of our work these days is benefitting from our discussions with colleagues and graduate students in the LOG (Langage, Organisation et Gouvernance) working group who meet weekly in the Department of Communication. We have also been collaborating with students and colleagues in various publication and conference projects: Taylor, J.R., Casali, A. M., Marroquin, L. & Vasquez, C. (expected for 2008). Comunicaςão e organizaςões: O essential (Series Media e Comunicaςão, Vol.VI, E. Cordeiro, Ed.) Angelus Novus, Biblioteca Minima: Lisboa, Portugal. Fauré, B. & Taylor, J. R., (submitted). Accounting as organizing through Communicating: Calculating the budget as a complex speech act. Organization Studies. Raymond, Diane & Taylor, J.R. (2007). Social topology and communication: Toward a redefinition of technological innovation in organizations. Paper to be presented to the annual conference of the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, May 26. At the same time we continue with the analysis of our own research and the preparation of the the following manuscript : Taylor, J. R. & Van Every, E. J. (in preparation). The thicket of authority: A communicative analysis.