Marxism
Feminism
Cultural Criticism
Deconstruction
Psychoanalysis
100
Denied ownership of the means of production, the proletariat class can only sell this.
What is labor (labor power)?
100
The belief that the phallus organizes both the process of sexual development and the ordering of the social world.
What is phallocentrism?
100
"There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at," wrote these two German theorists.
Who are Max Horkheimer Theodore Adorno?
100
Gayatri Spivak introduced the English-speaking world to Jacques Derrida with her renowned translation of this book.
What is Of Grammatology (De La Grammatologie)?
100
This German term translates as both "homely" and "familiar," but also "secret" and "hidden"
What is Heilmich
200
Tribalism, feudalism, and capitalism are different versions of this according to Marx.
What are modes of production?
200
According to Judith Butler and Simone de Beauvoir, one is not born but rather "becomes" this.
What is a woman?
200
Jean-Francois Lyotard's term for the story that explains everything.
What is a meta-narrative?
200
This is a speech act that bring something new into existence, as defined by J.L. Austin
What is a performative?
200
Freud invoked this concept to refer to the way a dream's content possesses "copious points of contact" with the dream-thoughts.
What is overdetermination?
300
Spivak's term for the West's outsourcing of production to the developing world.
What is the international division of labor?
300
Marx's analysis of this form underwrites Irigaray's analysis in "Women on the Market."
What is the commodity?
300
[Daily Double!]
What is a simulacrum?
300
This Greek term translates as Truth, Reason, but also Word
What is Logos
300
Freud's studies on trauma after the First World War forced him to "go beyond" this key tenet of psychoanalysis
What is the pleasure principle?
400
This is Antonio Gramsci's term for the form of dominance that operates by consent rather than coercion.
What is hegemony (cultural hegemony)?
400
According to Luce Irigaray, this term, meaning "imitation," is the primary tool for women's resistance.
What is mimesis/mimicry?
400
According to Walter Benjamin, works of art in the age of mechanical reproduction lose this quality.
What is the aura?
400
Citationality, iterability, and graftability all refer to the capacity for language to break from this all-important term.
What is the context?
400
The two processes that Freud believed constituted the "dream-work"
What are condensation and displacement?
500
[Daily Double!]
What is commodity fetishism?
500
Hélène Cixous' emphasis on female embodiment provoked charges of this from her critics.
What is essentialism (biological essentialism)?
500
If this is introduced into political life, according to Walter Benjamin, the logical result is Fascism.
What is aesthetics?
500
Derrida's famous portmanteau signifying both "to differ" (spatially) and "to defer" (temporally)
What is différance?
500
Jacques Lacan believed this algorithm defined "the topography of the unconscious"
What is Signifier/Signified?
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