ABSTRACT

While law and science make clear their sources of knowledge through the use of footnotes and citations, fiction operates by effacing its paths, its sources and its methods of knowledge, making them impossible to retrace (Latour 2010: 274). Since retracing is not an option for tracing those paths, the ethnographer needs to enter the writers’ room. Here, we discover that while all matters of fact have become matters of concern in modernity (Latour 2010: 242), television writers have not succumbed, and instead matters of concern remain matters of concern.