Gary HallFascinating how concepts in the humanities so often become separated from their embeddedness in specific knowledge situations, and become instead universalised as transcendental buzzwords. We could perhaps start a list. It’s happened to ‘materiality’. (And maybe ‘open’ and ‘commons’.) Could we say it’s even happened to ‘situated knowledges’ itself?
Timothy Elfenbein@garyhall The best work I know of that doesn’t just track the disembedding of concepts but also their subsequent embedding in new situations. Came out of the debates around globalization of culture. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Words-in-Motion/