Editor's Gloss: The Process of Shared Knowledge Creation

This issue is an exploration of the ephemeral—the stray thoughts, the side conversations, the discarded scraps and false starts that inform a published work of scholarship, usually invisibly. In putting together this collection of work, I wanted to make these traces the focal point, since so much of our actual thinking takes place in spaces of indeterminacy and interpersonal connection. These momentary and provisional collectives—what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing describes as "patchy assemblages"—spark new modes of working, thinking, and being together in higher education as well as sharing the outputs of such collaboration. The pieces in this issue collectively ask: What emerges from connection, engagement, amplification, thinking-together across disciplinary spaces and ways of knowing? How do we make manifest the relationship- and process-oriented modes of working that shape scholarly thought? And, conversely, how are our thoughts and ideas circumscribed by the institutional, hierarchical, and infrastructural systems we have inherited, as well as the tools and technologies we work with?