... This chapter examines the ways in which the aquatic space is reflected in a new political context. In particular it shows how this space has been mobilized in the formation of community councils along river basins. The river remains a key resource, both materially and symbolically, as it forms...

...Forming a Modern Identity ...

...Forming a Band ...

...Form ...

...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...

... Writing matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and trajectories that can be described or evoked. Writing is not epiphenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves...

...Impositions of Form ...

...Forms of Violence ...

...Forms of Multiplicity ...