Since the 1990s, the ways that knowledge is created and used have
changed. "Flexible knowledges," collaborative experiments across
specialized communities of practice, have become increasingly
important. By analyzing reenactments, Katie King highlights some of
the challenges, and pleasures, posed by experiments in flexible
knowledges. Focusing on science-styled TV programs, such as NOVA's
"Secrets of Lost Empires" series, and museum exhibitions, including
"Science in American Life" at the Smithsonian, she describes how
scholars, curators, historians, television producers, authors,
journalists, hobbyists, and others were compelled to work together
to communicate complex technical knowledge across multiple media
platforms. With limited authorial control, they sought to reach
widely differing local audiences, and to do so against a background
of national interests, changing technologies, the dynamics of
globalization, and the restructuring of the knowledge, culture, and
entertainment industries. King points to elements common to the
more successful reenactments: fine-grained analysis; attention to
multiple perspectives and scales, from the visual to the temporal;
and the participation of audience members engaged affectively and
imaginatively. Based on her assessment of the recent past, King
posits the emergence of a feminist posthumanities.
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