Acknowledgements ix // Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations 1 // Part I: How to Deploy Controversies About the Social World // Introduction to Part I: Learning to Feed off Controversies 21 // First Source of Uncertainty: No Group, Only Group Formation 27 // Second Source of Uncertainty: Action Is Overtaken 43 // Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency 63 // Fourth Source of Uncertainty: Matters of Fact vs. Matters of Concern 87 // Fifth Source of Uncertainty: Writing Down Risky Accounts 121 // On the Difficulty of Being an ANT: An Interlude in the Form of a Dialog 141 // Part II: How to Render Associations Traceable Again // Introduction to Part II: Why is it so Difficult to Trace the Social? 159 // How to Keep the Social Flat 165 // First Move: Localizing the Global 173 // Second Move: Redistributing the Local 191 // Third Move: Connecting Sites 219 // Conclusion: From Society to Collective Social Be Reassembled? // Bibliography // Index