Episode
Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation
COMPLEXITY · Nov 5, 2021 · 33 min
Where does cultural innovation come from? Histories often simplify the complex, shared work of creation into tales of Great Men and their visionary genius — but ideas have precedents, and moments, and it takes two different kinds of person to have and to hype them. The popularity of “influencers” past and present obscures the collaborative social processes by which ideas are born and spread.…