The Struggle to Affirm Strong Truths

Settled knowledges are about a profound relationality and historical conjuncture, but not about relativism. So the organism or the cell or climate change or coral reef holobiome biology,. those things are made in historical conjunctures that Karen Burad theorized as a kind of working through a gentle realism. These are strong truth claims. But there's also one more point I want to make before I let you ask another question. And that has to do with the way that situated knowledge is insist on opening up and building complex contact zones with other ways of knowing the world. It seems to me our job, if I can have this big box called we, is to build