..., it explores the relationship between ritualized and monotonous forms of military service and affect, as well as the modalities through which these forms did not work as mere performative means, but became constitutive of life amid the liminality and long-lasting temporality of military service. The particular...

...Forms of Life Focusing on Schmitt’s claim that the fence precedes all social relations, this chapter contrasts this notion with the emergent politics of the commons. Not only does the fence divide, it brings order and establishes law, providing the basis for the conceptual maneuvers...

...Forms of Life This chapter pays close attention to biological engineers’ use of mechanistic logic and machine analogies to render living substance in the form of molecular machines. It offers an ethnographic account of protein modelers’ creativity with both words and things as they learn...

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...Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms of Life ...

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