Keywords Now Keywords (continued)

“Keywords (continued)” extends Keywords for American Cultural Studies and other volumes in the Keywords series in two ways. Sometimes authors update their original essays when they sense significant changes in the usage and importance of their term. At other times, when new keywords are emergent, new essays appear here, pointing toward future entries in a Keywords volume and perhaps even future volumes in the series.

Both of these kinds of essays extend Raymond Williams’s foundational insight that language systems develop and change over time in ways that reflect and shape our thinking about culture and society. Our hope is that these posts will be useful to readers of Keywords volumes and editions, along with instructors and activists who are using these essays to encourage critical and creative thinking about the politics of language today.