How can we research the not-as-yet? The Research Event is concerned with enabling and nurturing an empirical and analytic sensibility that can address - that is speculate on - the emergent and the prospective in social life.

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. His research interests include everyday life and technoscience; culture and bioscience; and prospective methodologies. He is author of Actor-Network Theory (2017).

1. Introduction: The Research Event

2. Research Questions and the Sub-Topical

3. The Research Event's Fit: Anecdote, Affect and Attunement

4. Idiot and Parasite: On Productive Disconcertment

5. Speculation: Fabulating and Fabricating the Idiot

6. Interdisciplinarity and Practice: We Are All Practitioners ...

7. The Event of Analysis: Patterns, Abstraction, Expression

8. Concluding ... but not Ending