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Heralded as the “most important contribution that women’s studies has made so far” (McCall, 2005: 1771), intersectionality, a developing concept that has triggered numerous academic interventions and theorizing from different disciplines and perspectives, is a theory of extending open-endedness. It is of cardinal importance to carefully examine the originality and the theoretical positioning of the concept if we are to fully grasp the departing points which define it as subversive to the traditional feminist thought. This paper conceptualizes intersectionality as a traveling concept, and intends to examine how it is able to bring together different branches of feminisms from multiple perspectives and the possibility of achieving its ethical-political goals to problematize the theoretical hegemony of gender while still being able to provide a united feminist theoretical front.

Early in 2013 the online dance video clip ‘Do the Harlem Shake’ got an overnight viral trend. All over the world people affiliated with the phenomenon and took part in own performances, shared and spread, liked and commented these. The clips present a mise-en-scène of every day life situations (Goffman), which evoke a great number of inter-media (re)configurations related to personal daily routines e.g. at work, at school, or in leisure time. Not only is an idea repeated in the circulations of that dance clip, it is also turned into a valuable sociocultural act of remediation. ‘Do the Harlem Shake’ is constituted of ongoing digital practices and experiences. This paper describes discoveries of remediation patterns, which construct the discursive network ‘Do the Harlem Shake’ in various digital encounters.