hybrid

collective noun

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knife

silverware

There's a word for that

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binary

marijuana

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Indica

hamburger

hot dog

is a condensed network, and, by the same token, a network is a socially expanded hybrid.

But heterogeneous networks also have their limits. I shall argue that if we take certain kinds of networks as socially expanded hybrids then we can take hybrids as condensed network. . . .The Euro-American hybrid, as an image of dissolved boundaries, indeed displaces the image of boundary when it takes boundary's place' (Srathern 1996:523).

is, as a concept, a critique of separations, of categorical divisions, encompassing that between the pure and the hybrid itself. 'Hybridity' is invoked as a force in the world'.

[i]n the hands of the hybridizers, however, the very concept of the hybrid signals a critique of separations, of categorical divisions, encompassing that between the pure and the hybrid itself. 'hybridity' is invoked as a force in the world' (Strathern 1996:520).

is proliferating as a result of the many purificatory practices intended to suppress them.

Latour refers to the modern proliferation of hybrids as an outcome of purificatory practice. The more hybrids are suppressed -the more more categrical divisions are made' ((Strathern 1996:522).

hybrid, n.Definitions

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