Some writers now are exploring multiple ontologies that are enacted
simultaneously as workplace learning (Hitchin & Maksymiw, 2009; Mulcahy, 2007).
Suchman (2007) shows in her examinations of work activity: How and where is agency
produced? she asks. Where is alienation located in everyday interconnected
assemblages of objects, hands, eyes, and intentions? How are new realities constructed
from sociomaterial intra-actions? A continuing dilemma in any of this work, taking up
any of Law’s suggested methodological approaches to study workplace learning, is the
researcher’s implication in the enactment of the different reals. What is being
constructed and represented as multiple ontologies still emanates from a knowledgemaking
authority. The demands are high in such work for reflexivity, for tracing the
researcher’s complicity in the webs of action, and for accounts explicitly acknowledging
their fragility and their presumptions.