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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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