 Amongst the advantages of this position is the room left for novelty, and the genuine dependence on testing viability.Science also becomes more transient, more “in the flow” (Glanville claimed all research is designed); and the philosophical position becomes more one of interaction and engagement than of objective fixity.In spite of his abstract, distilled, purist streak, Glanville gathered and mixed material, approaches and understandings from many different fields, allowing those thinking within the structures he designed much room for individual manoeuvre and interpretation.