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Two energy-generating technologies in Britain which transform waste into a resource are compared. One is the (in)famous Combined Heat and Power incinerator in Sheffield, the other a forgotten biological digester in Devon utilizing anaerobic microbes. Both sites are early exemplars of experimental and biopolitical waste disposal technologies—incineration and anaerobic digestion—now regarded as leading alternatives for reducing the United Kingdom's dependence on landfill and fossil fuel; both sites also inspired public resistance at critical moments in their development. The analysis here relates how activists and technicians struggle to demonstrate competing truths about alternative energy. Through comparison, it becomes clear that, beyond the validity of specific truth claims, energo-politics mediates the formation of technological legacies. Examining the traces energy facilities leave behind—whether in the landscape or online—we ask what it means that various claims made about some technical operations endure, while others fade into obscurity.

This article places anthropology in dialogue with critical disability studies (CDS) in order to reassess historical and emerging ethnographic readings of difference. We argue that one unintended consequence of a lack of attention to disability in anthropology, generally, has been an impoverished conception of personhood and power. Building on insights from CDS and the ethnographic literature, we show how non-normative bodies and minds can play a critical role in relationships with non-human others and exemplary persons. Looking beyond hegemonic and secular ideas of disability as a form of misfortune or lack not only offers alternatives for being with disability, in keeping with the aims of CDS, but also shows new directions for comparative discussions of power and difference.

Intro -- Preface -- Writing Viral -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Part I: The First Wave -- On the Periphery -- Screen Memories -- A Week of (Not) Knowing -- To Be AND Not to Be a Citizen -- Virtual Mourning, Virtual Loss -- Déjà vu -- The Viral Sublime -- Anger -- Flickers of Ordinariness -- Microphantasms of the Pandemic -- Memento mori -- Legislative Intimacies -- The Other World, or Cacophony and Ethnography in Malaysia -- Communicating with and Through a Face Mask -- Family -- Sanitizing New York -- On Shopping and the Desire to Buy Shit During a Pandemic -- The Workout -- No Mask -- Queer life in Quarantine -- Stroud Playground -- Touch (In Progress) -- Gentle Exile -- Dancing With in COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Part II: The Second Wave -- "It's Covidtastic" -- The Morning Commute -- Toothpaste -- DiCTATURe eN COURS -- How Everything Can Collapse -- Virtual Travels -- Rinse and Repeat -- Music -- I Lost You -- Working From Home -- Nine days -- Online Lifeline -- Migrants' Stories in Pandemic Times -- Transnational Pain -- Breathing with Others -- The Paranoid Style -- Goldilocks-Down -- Chronochromatic Maps -- Alone, Performing to the Wall -- Fresh Flowers and State Violence -- Deferred Returns -- Chapter 3: Part III: Photos from the New Year -- Change (Figs. 3.1 and 3.2) -- Boy, It's Scary Out There -- The Same River Twice (Fig. 3.5) -- A Sign of the Times (Fig. 3.6) -- Photo of a Photo (Fig. 3.7) -- Listen to Nature! (Fig. 3.8) -- Getting Ready for a Lonely New Year's Eve Party (Fig. 3.9) -- Creation Destruction Creation... (Fig. 3.10) -- Tree Disposal (Fig. 3.11) -- Winter Evening in Savoy, Illinois (Fig. 3.12) -- Chapter 4: Part IV: Calculations -- Viral Load -- COVID-19 Daily Spatiotemporal Calculations -- The Calculi of Pleasure -- 2021 -- Vaccine on the Mind -- The Second (And Third) Shift.

What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts, the chapters here explore how indeterminacy is created and experienced in relationship to projects of classification and progress