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Introduction: The genesis and ontology of technoscientific objects  Part One: Horizon of Possibilities  1. The pyramid and the ring: A physics indifferent to ontology (Peter Galison)  2. Cancer stem cells: Ontology matters (Lucie Laplane)  3. Robots behaving badly: Simulation and participation in the study of life (Christopher Kelty)  4. Vanishing friction events and the inverted platonism of technoscience (Alfred Nordmann)  5. From the birth of fuel cells to the utopia of the hydrogen world (Pierre Teissier)  Part Two: Arenas of contestation  6. Heroin: Taming a drug and losing control (Jens Soentgen)  7. Long live play: The Playstation network and technogenic life (Colin Milburn)  8. A biography of a disorder that didn’t want to be diagnosed (Simone van den Burg)  9. The plasticity and recalcitrance of wetlands (Kevin C. Elliott)  10. The life and times of transgenics (Hugh Lacey)  11. Cardboard: Thinking the box (Cheryce von Xylander)  Part Three: Multiple temporalities  12. The multiple signatures of carbon (Sacha Loeve and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent)  13. Monitoring and remediating a garbage patch (Jennifer Gabrys)  14. Polar ice cores: Climate change messengers (Aant Elzinga)  15. Nuclear waste: An untreatable technoscientific product (Sophie Poirot-Delpech)  16. Biography of a ‘sand heap’: Staging the beginnings of nature (Astrid Schwarz)