** Preface

*** An Anarchist Squint, or Seeing Like an Anarchist

*** The Paradox of Organization

*** An Anarchist Squint at the Practice of Social Science

*** A Caution or Two

** One: The Uses of Disorder and “Charisma”

*** Fragment 1: Scott’s Law of Anarchist Calisthenics

*** Fragment 2: On the Importance of Insubordination

*** Fragment 3: More on Insubordination

*** Fragment 4: Advertisement: “Leader looking for followers, willing to follow your lead”

** Two: Vernacular Order, Official Order

*** Fragment 5: Vernacular and Official Ways of “Knowing”

*** Fragment 6: Official Knowledge and Landscapes of Control

*** Fragment 7: The Resilience of the Vernacular

*** Fragment 8: The Attractions of the Disorderly City

*** Fragment 9: The Chaos behind Neatness

*** Fragment 10: The Anarchist’s Sworn Enemy

** Three: The Production of Human Beings

*** Fragment 11: Play and Openness

*** Fragment 12: It’s Ignorance, Stupid! Uncertainty and Adaptability

*** Fragment 13: GHP: The Gross Human Product

*** Fragment 14: A Caring Institution

*** Fragment 15: Pathologies of the Institutional Life

*** Fragment 16: A Modest, Counterintuitive Example: Red Light Removal

** Four: Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie

*** Fragment 17: Introducing a Maligned Class

*** Fragment 18: The Etiology of Contempt

*** Fragment 19: Petty Bourgeois Dreams: The Lure of Property

*** Fragment 20: The Not So Petty Social Functions of the Petty Bourgeoisie

*** Fragment 21: “Free Lunches” Courtesy of the Petty Bourgeoisie

** Five: For Politics

*** Fragment 22: Debate and Quality: Against Quantitative Measures of Qualities

*** Fragment 23: What If … ? An Audit Society Fantasy

*** Fragment 24: Invalid and Inevitably Corrupt

*** Fragment 25: Democracy, Merit, and the End of Politics

*** Fragment 26: In Defense of Politics

** Six: Particularity and Flux

*** Fragment 27: Retail Goodness and Sympathy

*** Fragment 28: Bringing Particularity, Flux, and Contingency Back In

*** Fragment 29: The Politics of Historical Misrepresentation

** Acknowledgments