Finetuning terms: heterogeneity, multiplicity and specificity

This entry introduces a practice focused tradition within STS by dwelling on a few English words that were given an unconventional twist. The term heterogeneity helped to foreground that social and material realities form and inform each other. Multiplicity flagged up that within practices multiple versions of reality coexist and that cooperation does not depend on subscribing to a common world. Specificity highlights that practices are always somewhere, which does not mean that they stay put, but that their traveling becomes an inevitable issue. This short list raises the question which words might help to articulate your worlds.