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Algorithm

An algorithm is an emergent phenomenon. The word is a Latinised version of Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi’s name, who, in...
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Bio-politics

In his Collège de France lectures of the late 1970s, Foucault developed the notion of bio-politics, an idea that he...
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Chance Operations

There is a long history of chance operations in the context of music and art. In the 18th century, the Musikalisches Würfelspiel,...
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Contingency

Contingency is usually seen as the opposite of necessity – the idea that everything that has ever occurred and ever...
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Culture

In the broad sense of the word, culture encompasses social behaviour, beliefs, codes, customs, and norms. According to one of...
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Datafication

Datafication refers to the transformation of physical occurrences and (social) action into quantified data. It’s a process of turning previously...
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#datapolitik

First coined by political theorist Panagia in 2017, #datapolitik is a set of operations that regulates circulation through space and...
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Dataveillance

Dataveillance is the practice of monitoring and harvesting online data through a 24/7 collection of information on an individual or...
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Entanglement

Initially derived from quantum physics, entanglement occurs when existents of different kinds share spatial and temporal micro- or macro- proximity...
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Indeterminacy

Indeterminacy first came to prominence in the 20th century as a scientific idea. In physics, it was associated with Heisenberg’s uncertainty...
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Infosphere

First used by literary critic Sheppard in a 1971Time Magazine review to refer a ‘layer of electronic and typographical smog’ composed...
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Intermedia

In the late 1950s, a transitive sense of medium, or intermedium, arose as a response to the advent of what...
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Intra-action

This concept comes Karen Barad’s interpretation of interaction, which combines different species, processes, and different disciplinary agencies. Intra-action is the...
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Invisibilisation

Invisibilisation is a strategy developed by oppressive practices such as racism, sexism, ablism, or speciesism, that prescribe zones of non-experience...
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Knowledge

Knowledge is usually defined as awareness of/or familiarity with facts and as practical skills. The first type of knowledge is...
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Liminality

Liminality is an anthropological term, first coined by van Gennep in his 1909 book Rites of Passage. The word is derived...
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Memory

The topic of memory has a long philosophical lineage, with Plato conceiving of knowledge as a kind of recollection of...
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Neuroplasticity

One of the earliest allusions to the idea of neuroplasticity appears in James’s 1890 work The Principles of Psychology, where he...
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Organology

In its original meaning, organology refers to the classification of instruments, according to provenance, use, technical aspects of production, and...
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Paradigm

As a concept, paradigm was introduced by the philosopher of science Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,...
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Post-truth

This expression is most often used in the context of alternative or fabricated facts, fake news, affect- rather than fact-based...
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Recursion

Recursion occurs when a thing, being, or event is defined in terms of itself. In broader terms, recursivity – discussed...
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Retroversion

Retroversion is the act or process of turning back or regressing abruptly or unexpectedly. It’s related to acceleration and the...
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Tertiary Retention

Primary retention is the perception of objects that are present in the environment. Secondary retention is the recollection of primary...
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