Over the course of a year, we live so many lives it seems simultaneously naive and cynical to claim that we are always the same, demanding constancy of ourselves and others. In terms of knowledge production, those lives intersect and abut and transform each other despite housekeeping efforts to maintain distinctions between private and public, rational and sentimental, emic and etic, the known and everything else. So, rather than end 2011 by reviewing other people’s lives and events of global importance, instead I’m offering a facebookish mash-up my 2011. Glimpses of the sharing that has made my year possible and thus created conditions of possibility for writing Noted, situating knowledge, below.

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