Acknowledgements
One of the banal but still important principles of non-representational theory is that
all work is joint: the idea that such a thing as a single author is there to be named
is faintly ludicrous. Rather, all books seem to me to be in the nature of treated
novels like Tom Phillips’s wonderful (2005 [1980]) A Humument, full to the brim
with the thoughts of a host of others, alive and dead. I would like to name and thank
some of these others who have commented on one or more of the chapters in this
book: Jeremy Ahearne, Ash Amin, Jakob Arnoldi, Andrew Barry, Ryan Bishop,
Virginia Blum, Dede Boden, Søren Buhl, Geof Bowker, Chris Castiglia, Tom
Conley, Verena Andermatt Conley, Gail Davies, J-D Dewsbury, Stuart Elden,
Chris Gosden, Steve Graham, Paul Harrison, Kevin Hetherington, Ben Highmore,
Alex Kacelnik, Baz Kershaw, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Steen Nepper Larsen,
Bruno Latour, John Law, Beverly Lear, Celia Lury, Derek McCormack, Gregor
Maclennan, Bill Maurer, David Midgley, Brian Morris, Meaghan Morris, Dana
Nelson, Melissa Orlie, Tom Osborne, David Parkin, Claire Pearson, Victoria Perks,
Dag Petersson, John Phillips, Chris Philo, Paul Rabinow, Alan Read, Nikolas Rose,
Richard Sennett, Michael Sheringham, Peter Slojterdijk, Bent Sørenson, David
Stark, Helen Thomas, Grahame Thompson, Frederik Tygstrup, John Urry, Deb
Verhoeven, Valerie Walkerdine, Sarah Whatmore, Martin White, Steve Woolgar,
and Katharine Young.
Chapter 1: for this book
PART I
Chapter 2: first published in 2006 in Economy and Society(reproduced courtesy of
Routledge)
Chapter 3: first published in 2001 in Body and Society(reproduced courtesy of
Sage (© Sage Publications, 2000) by permission of Sage Publications)
Chapter 4 : first published in 200 4 in Theory Culture and Society(reproduced
courtesy of Sage (© Sage Publications, 2000) by permission of Sage Publications)