ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on specifically on the phenomenon of "project," and will consider what a project consists of as a productive analytic for the work of laboratory science. As an analytic unit in the temporalization of the lab work, a project was observed to be a contingent phenomenon which was not assured of completion or continuous production by the mere fact of its having been started. The serial and simultaneous relationships between actions in any single project, and between projects, appeared to be a substantive issue for the inquiry, conceived of as a developing social production. Holton raises a distinction between the sequence of scientific actions as reported, and that of the actual performance of actions by members in a project. For many of the lab members, the scene took on a specialized visibility, where activities were sometimes visible to members as a lab spectacle and at other times as practically available circumstances.
