In an era where uncertainty pervades efforts to imagine and shape the future, how are organizations navigating increasingly blurred boundaries between anticipation and imagination? Despite that future events are inherently unpredictable, organizations heavily rely on past data to forecast and anticipate future developments. Mobilizing such predictions about the future, not solely cultivates a sense of control but supposedly allows organizations to speak and act on behalf of what-is-yet-to-come. Drawing on empirical illustrations from the offshore wind industry, this article explores how organizations transform indeterminate situations of long-term caretaking of offshore wind assets, where limited historical data challenges conventional forecasting practices. More often than not, we find ourselves driven by a certain ‘hunch’ or ‘feeling’ for what-is-yet-to come even if we are troubled to fully verbalize it. These nuanced nonverbal cues occur frequently in organizing practices, yet limited attention is being given to their transformative agency. Inspired by a vectorial perspective, this article explores actors’ in-betweenness to understand how speaking and acting on behalf of other beings unfolds in multimodal spaces. Particularly in the complexity of uncertain situations, it is not easily discernible which actors are animating or being animated. Mobilizing the conceptualization of meshwork (Ingold, 2011), the article shines light on the many unfolding and interweaving lines that shape future imaginings. In doing so, the article contributes to a deeper methodological understanding of ventriloquial analyses particularly regarding fluid dynamics through which organizations engage with indeterminate and uncertain futures. Keywords: communicative constitution, ventriloquism, multimodality, uncertain futures, vector, meshwork
