Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, and statistics, and ethics.

Acknowledgments  vii
Poem-Like Tolls 1: A Prelude  1
Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects
1. Fors  13
2. Labyrinth Life: Affect Excess Infrastructure  42
3. Double Binds of Science  80
Poem-Like Tolls 2: An Interlude
Part II. Minding the Infrastructure of Genomics
4. Curation: Of Data’s Limits  111
5. Scrupulousness: Of Experiment’s Limit  141
6. Solicitude: Of Science’s Limit  183
7. Friendship: Of Community’s Limits  221
Poem-Like Tolls 3: An Appendix  253
Postscript  259
Notes  277
Works Cited  311
Index  337

Mike Fortun is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation.