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The conversation between science, technology, and society scholars and political theorists staged here began life as a workshop convened at the University of Oxford in December 2006. The chapters in this volume are the products of a workshop format in which their earlier incarnations were generative intermediaries in conversations that centered not on author presentations but on commentaries and exchanges organized around paired papers through which new and sometimes difficult connections, associations, and contentions emerged. We are extremely grateful to our authors for submitting to having their work forced through this mangle and have been reassured by those who stuck with the long revision process that they found the device as productive as the other participants. We also acknowledge the participants in the workshop whose various contributions helped to shape our conversations but do not appear in this collection: Karen Barad, Mark Brown, Gail Davies, Paul Giles, Chris Gosden, Beth Greenhough, Dan Hicks, Steve Hinchliffe, Lois McNay, Derek McCormack, Annemarie Mol, Valérie November, and Steve Woolgar. We would also like to acknowledge the financial support of Oxford University Centre for the Environment for hosting the workshop. We are grateful to Pamela Richardson at Oxford and Elizabeth Johnson at Minnesota for their assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication and to Sebastian Abrahamsson for his assistance in preparing and recording workshop proceedings. Finally, we thank Jason Wiedemann at the University of Minnesota Press for his support for this project. Acknowledgments vii This page intentionally left blank ...

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