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relationships. We often turn to metaphors of texture to describe our sense of the moral, emotional, and organizational feelings of these relationships. A situation can be knotty and tangled; it can be handled smoothly and without ruffles. Following Lakoff and Johnson (1980), we take these ''metaphors we live by'' as more than poetic but imprecise means of expression. The metaphors are more systematic and more telling than that. Indeed, they are a key to understanding and perhaps to modeling some of the more complex phenomena facing us in what Ina Wagner (personal communication) has called "the classification society." |
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The book concludes in chapter 10 with a discussion of the ways in which research on classification and standards can inform a larger program of research into the building and maintaining of infrastructureand its simultaneous material-cultural nature. |
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