In response / Annelise Riles -- Academic and bureaucratic knowledge -- Performing promise / Don Brenneis -- (Deadlines) : removing the brackets on politics in bureaucratic and anthropological analysis / Annelise Riles -- Authorship and agency -- Conceiving children : how documents support case versus biographical analyses / Carol A. Heimer -- Documents of documents : scientists' names and scientific claims / Mario Biagioli -- Documents unfolding / Adam Reed -- Collaboration and response -- Bullet-proofing : a tale from the United Kingdom / Marilyn Strathern -- Documenting the present / Hirokazu Miyazaki.