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Not only a new speech but a new hearing. |
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Hearing to speech is political. |
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Hearing to speech is never one-sided. Once a person is heard to speech she becomes a hearing person. |
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Speaking first to be heard is power over. Hearing to bring forth speech is empowering. (Morton 1985, 210). |
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Part of the moral vision of this book concerns how we may, through challenge and analysis of infrastructure, better hear each other to speech. |
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Multiple Marginality, Multiple Naturalizations: Categorical Work |
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The model proposed here takes the form of a many-to-many relational mapping, between multiple marginality of people (borderlands and monsters) and multiple naturalizations of objects (boundary objects and standards). Over time, the mapping is between the means by which individuals and collectives have managed the work of creating coherent selves in the borderlands on the one hand and creating durable boundary objects on the other. |
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It is also not just many-to-many relational, but meta-relational. By this we mean that the map must point simultaneously to the articulation of selves and the naturalization of objects. One of the things that is important here is honoring the work involved in borderlands and boundary objects. This work is almost necessarily invisible from the point of view of any single community of practice. As Collins (1986) asks, what white really sees the work of self-articulation of the black who is juggling multiple demands-audiences-contingencies? It is not just willful blindness (although it can be that), but much more akin to the blindness between different Kuhnian paradigms, a revolutionary difference. Yet the juggling is both tremendously costly and brilliantly artful. Every community of practice has its overhead: "paying your dues, being regular, hangin', being cool, being professional, people like us, conduct becoming, getting it, catching on." And the more communities of practice one participates in, the higher the overhead not just in a straightforwardly additive sense, but interactively. Triple jeopardy (i.e., being old, black, and female) is not just three demographic variables or conditions added together, but a tremendously challenging situation of marginality requiring genius for survival. The overheads interact. |
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