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Terminology whizzes around at conferences, sometimes congealing around a shared set of reference points and sometimes dissipating into dust. The Commons. Assemblage. Neoliberalism. We assume we're talking about the same things—but are we? Everyone knows that if you repeat a term often enough, it starts to sound absurd. Fiona Shipwright picked up on one of these conversational hallmarks during transmediale 2017: the “ever elusive” word infrastructure. By following its usage throughout various events, especially a workshop called “Impossible Escapes,” she found its curious and often funny (mis)appropriations telling, and even found something like political potential its endless ambiguity: for “no one field or discipline can command a monopoly of understanding.”