Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- 1 Approaching Uncertainty -- Emergence and modes of engagement -- Futures, interventions and workshops -- The structure of the book -- 2 What is Uncertainty -- Uncertainty as a concept -- Uncertainty as a field of empirical study -- The politics of uncertainty -- Uncertainty in research -- Opening up to uncertainty -- 3 Uncertainty as Technology -- Re-figuring uncertainty as technology -- Uncertainty as a technology of the imagination, experience and action -- Uncertainty as technology for disruption -- Uncertainty as technology for surrender -- Uncertainty as technology for moving beyond -- A guide to reading the following chapters -- 4 Strategies for Disruption -- Contemporary (dis)alignments -- Making as disruption -- Disrupting everyday technology norms -- Structuring tension and balance -- Disruption as a generative catalyst: the lunch-making task -- Disruption as a destructive force: ethnographies of lunch -- Considering uncertainty through disruption -- 5 Surrendering to and Tracing Uncertainty -- Preparing -- Locating uncertainty -- Letting go of control -- Tracing -- Discovering capacity -- Trusting -- 6 Uncertainty as Technology for Moving Beyond -- Non-fiction creative writing -- Why the FabPod? -- An essaying methodology -- Methods -- Moving beyond -- Where to? -- 7 Propositions and Practical Applications -- Inevitability -- Ethics -- Collectives -- Improvisation -- Emergences -- Practical applications -- References -- Index -- Plates -- Copyright.

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