Introduction: what does it mean to write a postindustrial place? -- Chapter overviews -- Rhetoric: kairos, metis, technê, attunement -- 1. Writing working futures -- Designing culture: sites of labor -- Communicating advantages -- Cultural study reveals opportunity -- 2. Subaru as postindustrial iterative automobile manufacturing -- Ford, Fordism, Detroit -- Iterative design as new normal -- Kaizen at SIA -- ISO 15001, 50001: SIA's blue sky future -- 3. Illinois and hybrid industrial agriculture -- ADM's postindustrial hybrids -- Limestone reduces SO[sub(2)] emissions -- Sustaining large-scale power plants -- Hybrid networks -- 4. Recycling expertise in Ohio's automotive triangle -- Human nodes in Toledo's photovoltaic network -- Daily operation manager -- Education administrator -- Entrepreneur -- High-tech research and development -- Translating innovation: rearticulating Toledo -- 5. Ludington, Michigan, Pumped Storage as quasi-object -- Fences, freedom: nature, protection -- Worrying Ludington: institutional identity -- Why pumped storage is not a battery -- Ludington as quasi-object -- Falling in love with the quasi-object -- 6. Homegrown innovation: Indiana -- Nanshan and Alcoa -- Fort Wayne Metals -- Cook Biotech -- Braun automotive -- Postindustrial hybrids: loving our monsters, throwing away categories -- 7. Postindustrial Midwest: Mesh, network, place -- Past to future, tense networks -- Hearing the voice of culture -- Conclusion: TPC futures.