collier, golden lionheart2025-05-152025-05-152025-05-15https://hdl.handle.net/10177/40881What can be known and how? What is the nature of existence, and how is that nature reflected in the expression of culture? What exactly counts as data, and how is it encoded, decoded, exchanged, and circulated? To better explore the mysteries of how cultural information and data migrate through time, space, and complex systems, I’ve adapted a variety of unconventional conceptual and methodological tools to examine the phenomenon of strong emergence in diasporic cultural transmission.