Structure
A system of durable, transposable dispositions, [...] principles which generate and organize practices and representations that can be objectively adapted to their outcomes without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends or an express mastery of the operations necessary in order to attain them
What is habitus?
It is a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms, is quietly undoing basic elements of democracy.
What is neo-liberalism?
It is the pivotal source of the inaccurate cultural representations that form the foundations of Western thought and perception of the Eastern world; a way of exercising power through the creation of otherness.
What is orientalism?
The basis of democracy and the necessary condition for "politics", as defined by philosopher Jacques Rancière.
What is dissensus?
The joint action of habitus and capital as the constructive principle of a positional space, expressing through competitive interactions a set of acquired dispositions based on uneven resources.
What is the field?
A theory and methodology that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.
What is rhizome?
School of thought that studies the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. It is a critical theory which analyzes the history, culture, literature, and discourse of European imperial power.
What is postcolonialism?
A theory of inequality and social power that focuses on the ways in which social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) combine to create unique modes of discrimination and domination.
What is intersectionality?
It is a de-centralised, relativistic, ubiquitous, and unstable (dynamic) systemic phenomena; based on knowledge and makes use of knowledge; it reproduces knowledge by shaping it in accordance with its anonymous intentions.
What is power? (According to Foucault)
It is a geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems.
Anthropocene
It is an act [in a play] which has been rehearsed, much as a script survives the particular actors who make use of it, but which requires individual actors in order to be actualized and reproduced as reality once again; thus it is not a thing so much as a process by which patterns of language and action come to repeat themselves.
What is gender?
A process of information transmission with wide-reaching consequences, transforming social worlds through encounters, influence, conversions, and collaborations. Through the dissolvement of self-containment, this process makes possible collaborations. [One value of keeping precarity in mind is that it makes us remember that changing with circumstances is the stuff of survival.]
What is contamination?
It is a selective reactivation of patterns of past behaviors; an imaginative generation of possible future trajectories; a capability of making normative and practical judgments.
What is agency?
It is a concept that asserts that within a body, the relationships of component parts are not stable and fixed; rather, they can be displaced and replaced within and among other bodies, thus approaching systems through relations of exteriority.
What is assemblage?
This term refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance.
What is subalternity?
A political project which aims to undo colonialism through alternative modes of knowledge production and action; and in which "colonialism" is understood in a broad sense encompassing all forms of domination.
What is decolonialism?
It is an epistemological position that defines social human practices as ceaselessly re-constituted, re-shaped and re-organized by the on-going flow of the very structure of their reciprocal relations, and not merely by their respective personalities or identities.
What is relationalism?
It is the collection of processes, sites, and moments in which digital technology mediates the structural tendencies of capitalism.
What is digital capitalism?
An attribute, behavior, or reputation which is socially discrediting in a particular way: it causes an individual to be mentally classified by others in an undesirable, rejected stereotype rather than in an accepted, normal one.
What is a stigma?
A distinct geological epoch in which the capitalist formula of “accumulation for accumulation’s sake” has penetrated into every nook and cranny of the planet’s biophysical environment, to the point where the survival of the capitalist system has come to constitute an existential threat to the survival of humanity as a whole.
What is capitalocene?