Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. His research interests include everyday life and technoscience; culture and bioscience; and prospective methodologies. He is author of Actor–Network Theory (2017).

• 1. Introduction: The Research Event 2. Research Questions and the Sub-Topical 3. The Research Event’s Fit: Anecdote, Affect and Attunement4. Idiot and Parasite: On Productive Disconcertment 5. Speculation: Fabulating and Fabricating the Idiot 6. Interdisciplinarity and Practice: We Are All Practitioners … 7. The Event of Analysis: Patterns, Abstraction, Expression 8. Concluding … but not Ending

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. His research interests include everyday life and technoscience; culture and bioscience; and prospective methodologies. He is author of Actor–Network Theory (2017).

• 1. Introduction: The Research Event 2. Research Questions and the Sub-Topical 3. The Research Event’s Fit: Anecdote, Affect and Attunement4. Idiot and Parasite: On Productive Disconcertment 5. Speculation: Fabulating and Fabricating the Idiot 6. Interdisciplinarity and Practice: We Are All Practitioners … 7. The Event of Analysis: Patterns, Abstraction, Expression 8. Concluding … but not Ending

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. His research interests include everyday life and technoscience; culture and bioscience; and prospective methodologies. He is author of Actor–Network Theory (2017).

• 1. Introduction: The Research Event 2. Research Questions and the Sub-Topical 3. The Research Event’s Fit: Anecdote, Affect and Attunement4. Idiot and Parasite: On Productive Disconcertment 5. Speculation: Fabulating and Fabricating the Idiot 6. Interdisciplinarity and Practice: We Are All Practitioners … 7. The Event of Analysis: Patterns, Abstraction, Expression 8. Concluding … but not Ending