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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Cover has some wear/creasing but pages are excellent. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Before we begin this introduction we think it might be helpful to say a littl about the organization of the book and its inclusion of some but not othe inventive methods. In a broad sense the collection is a response to the current renewal of interest in the politics of method in some social sciences (Burrows and Savage 2007; Thrift 2007; Adkins and Lury 2009; Rabinow and Marcus 2009) as evidenced by the recent discussion of research methods and dissemination activities that critically engage theory and practice including participatory and action research methods: performative and non- representational investigations; the acknowledgement of non-human agencies as well as interdisciplinary and collaborative and beyond-the-academy working practices. It responds and hopes to make a contribution to the ‘new empiricism of sensation’ (Clough and Halley 2007) to help expand the repertoire of ‘materially innovative methods (Law 2004) and address the limits of the phenomenal. More specifically the book refers back to a workshop that the editors organized in 2009 and includes chapters based on presentations made there. In thinking about this collection however we have also drawn upon accounts of methods of conducting research that are not included here but are relevant in relation to the patterns (see Chapters 9 and 10) we see emerging in this collection. These include Haraway (1985) on cyborg Serres (2007) on parasite Agamben (2009) on apparatus Berlant (2007) on the case Fraser (2010) on event Kwinter (1998) on diagram Rabinow and Marcus (2009) and Parker (2012 forthcoming) on contraption Riles (2001) on network and Stark (2009) on search all of which are models ideals or exemplars that we believe deserve imitation. (LL)