This article analyses the role of infrastructures in the ‘bioinformational
turn’ in forensic science and examines processes through which evidence
is constituted, validated, or challenged in and through domains of
expertise that engage different techniques, data, objects and
knowledges through infrastructural arrangements. While the digitisation
of the infrastructures that underpin forensic service delivery promised
connectivity, prosperity and wellbeing, in reality it also brought forward
new levels of risk and vulnerability, generating new tensions and frictions
in the body politic. As genetic science reaches post-archival horizons
through new genetic sequencing technologies, forensic science in postarchival times raises questions concerning the differential impact of the fragmentation of analytical and archival infrastructures and increasingly
asynchronous bureaucracies whose role is displaced by the relative
autonomy of datasets and computational architectures that elude
governance oversight and citizens’ scrutiny
