SI28-Glossary

Tommi - Meta There is a unique beauty in everything that is meta: thinking about thinking, in machines that relate to other machines, and infinite other intricate rabbit holes. XPUB embodies the concept of metaness in the most wonderful way, flirting with the risk of being a bubble and being self-referencial, but always fostering meaningful, compelling stimuli and inspiration.

Luca - Marginalia A form of annotation that highlights the center at the margins, making text dialectical. A brazilian radical art movement started in late 60s as a response to the military dictatorship by publishing subversive acts that challenged conservative values.

Barbs - Oddkin We require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, including not only humans but also non-humans. Coined by Donna Haraway.

Youjung - Assemblages Assemblage of words, meanings, methods, tools and people. We were/are a wonderful and fun assemblage.

Kiki - Cognitive loop A narrative loop is a story structure in which similar events or challenges repeat with variations!

Lea - The Beat Generation The Beat Generation refers to a movement in American literature that emerged in the 1950s – the core group consisting of authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. Central elements of Beat culture include the rejection of materialism and conventional narrative values, explicit depictions of human existence, the search for spirituality, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation. The soundtrack of the Beat Generation was modern jazz, in particular the energetic sound of bebop and hard bop.

Ema - Cognitive Assemblages Distribution of cognition and agency: Neither humans nor technical systems are solely in charge. Both are “cognizers” that interpret and act on information, with agency distributed across the system. A system where human and technical actors, like humans, algorithms, and sensors, work together, distributing cognition and agency across the network

Robin - Media-Specific analysis A theory we learned about through katherine Hayles' Post-Print. It has made me consider more deeply how the medium, the 'materiality' of a text plays a role in how it circulates and is received. It clicked for me especially to treat the networked nature of digital or technologically produced text as the 'starting point' so to say, instead of thinking about a text as being the thing that I see when I see it in front of me as I read it first.

Sybil - The Proust effect The Proust effect is the spontaneous, vivid reliving of a past memory, especially a childhood one, triggered by a sensory experience like smell or taste.

Valentin - Pragmatics Paul Grice put down the basis of Pragmatics in linguistic philosophy to think about communication in broader terms other than Semantics. His theory of implicatures is about comunnication as an investigative process for relevancies is tied to the context where the communication happens in. Pragmatics proves that language on its own is limiting, through means of mind reading abilities and the common understanding of how things work in reality.

Daan – Superfluous unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

Phillip – Writing Tulips in bloom Clara born to war’s dark loom Hiding with whispers Under the floor Hunger and hope They rationed more Amsterdam wept But she survived A child of shadows Kept alive…

Soda – Drifting We are like the drifting pros on Mount Akina in Initial D, full of motion and imagination, engaging in decentralized, fluid creation, with everyone choosing the medium they prefer.