Organizing Modernity Book

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
1	Tales of Ordering and Organizing	1
2	The Purity of Order?	4
3	Sociological Resources	9
4	The Structure of the Book: Network, Mode of Ordering and Material	18
2	Networks and Places	31
1	Networks of Writing	31
2	Networks of Agency	33
3	Networks of Research	34
4	Networks of Integrity	38
5	Places	40
6	Anxieties	43
7	Network and Process	47
3	Histories, Agents and Structures	52
2	Evolution and Heroism	53
3	Agency Lost	57
4	Agency Regained: The Story of Cowboy-heroism	61
5	Agency Regained: Vision and Charisma	66
4	Irony, Contingency and the Mode of Ordering	73
2	Four Modes of Ordering	75
3	The Status of the Mode of Ordering	82
4	More Stories from Ethnography	86
5	Personal Stories from Politics	89
5	Contingency, Materialism and Discourse	94
2	Contingency and Necessity	96
3	Liberalism, Optimism and Deletion	97
4	Agency, Deletion and Relational Materialism	100
5	The Mode of Ordering	104
6	The Mode of Ordering: A Checklist	110
6	Rankings	115
2	Ranking and the Mode of Ordering	116
3	Performing Ranks	121
4	Technical Heroism	129
7	Dualisms and Gradients: Notes on the Material Forms of Ordering	137
1	Mode of Ordering, Material and Modernity	137
2	The Heterogeneity of Dualism	140
3	Privilege, Architecture and the Body	145
4	Paperwork and Privilege	151
8	Enterprise, Trust and Distrust	163
1	Performance and Distrust	163
2	Intelligence-gathering and Trust	176
3	A Note on Face-to-face Interaction	181
9	Postscript	185
1	Reactions	185
2	Reflections	189
	References	196
	Index	206