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in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy, by Michel Call n, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe. Translated by Graham Burchell. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 287pp. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780262033824. Acting in an Uncertain is the literal translation of the title of the original French version of this book, published by the presti gious Editions de Seuil in 2001. As suits a publisher known for its titles by Lacan, Barthes, and Borges, the book is written for a general intellectual reader whose identi ty is much better known in Europe than the United States. Unsurprisingly then, the English version appears in a rather earnest, long-running science and technology studies (STS) specialist series. Nevertheless, in an Uncertain World is best read as it was

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