AFTERWORD Episodes or Incidents SEEKING SIGNIFICANCE Paul Rabinow Episode: “A significant incident: an event that is p «a greater whole and Incident Something that happens... event but significance.” ay result in a eis.” ‘The essays collected here display an extravagant range, depth, and scale of incongruous (or these experts produce. That clustering of shaping those ary ident se experts are authorized to contend with, in fi convincingly provide: and evaluation of the low of da make sense of, aid propose responses der terms. rho accident. The chapters in this volume have been assembled precisely with anawareness of thee tothe rationality i heterogeneity of topics as well as the need to be attentive jonalities that may well be linking them now or in the near 1s have brought together authors who proceed from a broadly hypothess, ot wit that these heterogencous topics i raphy of an emerges space, The chapters provide evidence and argument ‘France; the mutually contested understa the tacit knowledge required to| ‘organizations in the world and the place of such know styled hard-headed and sincere expe? and mote expertise, and the wi rumblings of diverse organizational ‘chapters in and of themselves provides an education. s over tertitory and authority. rowing and seemingly neverending. disputations, demonstrations, ferences, deductions, obfuscations, and a pervasive sense of confusion, cloaked for the public—and most tellingly, for many of the experts themselves —In. or isemergin (as the old metaphor would have knowledge system would put need to know covers and Inflects an equally and recut? Today, while such probabi present in certain wel chapters n this volume demtured instead toward incidents a series and Incidents and episodes? leasure in saying: the future 1ct naw! Or prepare to act as tocome, of seems, On the second ann jpheres that eventually awa might not help; but it cert -Herice there seemed to be something to do. And regan influence might oF y could not burt f who was ng was apparently certain: 1s could only remain there or ascend, Purgatory was Into catasteophe through thi culable and whieh may or ma not even certain when we might descend or where we might descend to, Today ve seem to have moved from the n fe of Christan purgatory into some contemporary Bud their demons, whether et, decipher, decode, analyze, synthesize, jpprove, improve, convince, decry, denounce, and raise they are not knowable. Given ig has consequences even role play: the theater of the vistual ha nothing happens? Perhaps something ominous has inty, one aight as reports emerge of wonder whether cascading sheets. ine mighht wonder Wh teaching that tacit knowledge of MIT or Stan ford; or whether the potential ant graduate students who have no longer stand the and fame, markets of the prosperous Chinese, before lying they ‘Committee on Human Subjects? to the DoD or to the US. Patent jed in the mountains of