Mobilising Resources Through Texts

Abstract

In the preceding chapters it has been argued that texts are powerful in science. This is because they have the capacity to act at a distance through the presentation of a carefully structured actor-world. They signpost the passageways that interested readers should follow, and they make these signposts forceful by providing traces that lead the reader both to the laboratory and to other scientific articles. Readers who wish to deconstruct the text — normally other scientists working in the same area — have to retrace the passageways provided in the paper and remake the publications and laboratory findings depicted therein in a different way.