Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.

With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, ebbs, and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Belgium, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, and France, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society.

1. Complexities: an Introduction - Annemarie Mol (Twente University) &
John Law (Lancaster University)2. Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences - Chunglin Kwa (University of Amsterdam)3. Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an 'Equipped' Humanity - Laurent Thevenot (CNRS, Paris)4. On Space and Depth - Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge University)5. On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism and Aircraft Design - John Law (Lancaster University)6. In the Middle of the Network - Andrew Barry (Goldsmiths' College, University of London)7. Where Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya - Charis Thompson (Harvard University)8. Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity - Michel Callon (Ecole des Mines de Paris)9. Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing - Annemarie Mol (Twente University)10. The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma and Complexity - Nick Lee &
Steven D. Brown (Loughborough University