Organizing and regulating as rhizomatic lines: Bank fraud and auditing

This paper is concerned with failures of organizing: with how and why thing s become disorganized. It's also concerned with failures of regulation: wit h regulators in an already escaping present, freezing the circumstances of a past failure of organization in order to derive future policy prescriptio ns. Movement is key to our analysis: the continuous movement between organi zational components and between their connections to regulatory techniques is such that organization can be considered as always an unfinished and imp erfect activity. Bank fraud and auditing provide the empirical material for the paper. The conceptual tools we use to help us with the idea of movemen t rely heavily upon the work of Deleuze and Guattari.