ABSTRACT
Psychological processes behind conceptual diversity have not received much attention by science and technology studies, new materialist feminism, postphenomenology or philosophy in general. This chapter discusses notion of collectives across situated practices. Most posthumanist theories discard both individual humans and fixed representations, but often overlook the social human collectives that processually entangle material words with meanings. In the era of social constructionism, it could be argued that the human and social sciences have thoroughly explored the connection between words and materiality. Concepts are the time-binding glue that makes stories and materiality evolve together. In the humanist learning paradigms, every transaction between persons would be a learning context. When Karen Barad speaks of “spacetimemattering” this includes stories that draw together what space and time constitute as well as what constitutes space and time in an iterative reconfiguring that takes place in the ongoing intra-activity with the world.
