ABSTRACT
This chapter returns to ANT’s methodological dictum ‘follow the actors whose concern you share’ and explores the relation of this method to ethnography as it has been practised and conceptualised across anthropology and science and technology studies. The chapter narrates forth a shared history of ethnography across these fields as an entry point for narrating forth an ethnographic encounter with a technological prototype. The chapter shows how the concepts an ethnographer brings to such an encounter enter into conversation with other concepts, including technological concepts, already present. It makes a case for why radical empiricism can be reinvented with ethnographic practices that allow analysts to parse relations as well as detachments to concepts in the making.
