affect, imbricated in the everyday ways people in Myanmar are seeking to navigate an uncertain reencounter with globalization and democratic politics. Consideration of new possibilities attendant to telecommunications infrastructure, then, will need to look beyond simply those acts that become possible, and ask what, if anything, is changing in both the ways that people develop the narratives that organise their worlds and in the content of the narratives themselves. Technologies matter, as Hecht says; will the production of Buddhist-Muslim violence be any different? 15