View of Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time | Cultural Anthropology
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- Implosion is a concept whose first dictionary definition is “a violent collapse inward,” as when a star collapses on its own gravity to form a black hole. Analogously, world histories are not just found inside objects, and objects do not “point” to them; in important ways each object is made of imploded histories: “Any interesting being in technoscience, like a textbook, molecule, equation, mouse, pipette, bomb, fungus, technician, agitator, or scientist can—and often should—be teased open to show the sticky economic, technical, political, organic, historical, mythic, and textual threads that make up its tissues” (Haraway 1997, 68).
title: “View of Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time | Cultural Anthropology”
author: “journal.culanth.org”
url: ”https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca29.2.09/301”
date: 2023-12-19
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View of Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time | Cultural Anthropology
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- Implosion is a concept whose first dictionary definition is “a violent collapse inward,” as when a star collapses on its own gravity to form a black hole. Analogously, world histories are not just found inside objects, and objects do not “point” to them; in important ways each object is made of imploded histories: “Any interesting being in technoscience, like a textbook, molecule, equation, mouse, pipette, bomb, fungus, technician, agitator, or scientist can—and often should—be teased open to show the sticky economic, technical, political, organic, historical, mythic, and textual threads that make up its tissues” (Haraway 1997, 68).