atompunk

a sub genre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the atomic era.

somato-

of or relating to the human or animal body

as in somato-politcal

cyberdelic

1 Immersion in cyberspace as a psychedelic experience.

2 The fusion of cyberculture and the psychedelic subculture into a new counterculture of the 1980s and 1990s.

3 Psychedelic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media.

4 Rave dance parties where DJs and other performers play psychedelic trance music, with the accompaniment of laser light shows, projected images, and artificial fog. Attendees often use "club drugs".

epoch (rhymes with tupac)

an event or time marked by an event that begins a new period of development

neuromantic(s)

Norman Spinrad, in his 1986 essay "The Neuromantics" which appears in his non-fiction collection Science Fiction in the Real World, saw the book's title as a triple pun: "neuro" referring to the nervous system; "necromancer"; and "new romancer." The cyberpunk genre, the authors of which he suggested be called "neuromantics," was "a fusion of the romantic impulse with science and technology," according to Spinrad.

tropism

1 can be used in a derisive way, to indicate an action done without cognitive thought 

a. however, tropism, in this sense, has a proper, although non-scientific meaning as an innate tendency, natural inclination, or propensity to act in a certain manner

2 literally "a turning" from the greek troops

3 a biological phenomena indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus

chemotropism

movement or growth in response to chemicals

geotropism or gravitropism

movement or growth in response to gravity

heliotropism

movement or growth in response to sunlight

sonotropism

movement or growth in response to sound

hydrotropism

movement or growth in response to water

phototropism

movement or growth in repines to lights or colors of light (e.g. the sunflower)

thermotropism

movement or growth in response to temperature

electrotropism

movement or growth in response to an electric field

thigmotropism

movement or growth in response to touch or contact

exotropism

continuation of growth "outward" i.e. in the previously established direction

ecotropism

limited host rage (e.g. infects only one species or cell type)

amphotropism

wide host rage (e.g. infects many of entry into cells used by a given strain of HIV)

neurotropism

a virus that preferentially infects the host's nervous system

photoperiodism

response to seasons

constellate

form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together

"the towns and valleys where people constellate"

thematics

noun

1 a body of topics for study or discussion

2 philately: british term for topical, as in of a subject of immediate relevance, interest, or importance owing to its relation to current events (topical is an adjective)

biopunk

1 One who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics.

2 A techno-progressive movement advocating open access to genetic information.

3 A science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology and subversives.

sublimate

verb

(esp. in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity

bloc

noun

a group of nations, parties, or persons united for common action

an often bipartisan coalition of legislators acting together for a common purpose or interest

exigency

an urgent need or demand

le bateau ivre

french for "the drunken boat"

panaches

an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet

panache

dash or flamboyance in style or action

ineffable

too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

belle ame

soul, french

dissolution

1 decomposition into fragments or parts

2 indulgence in sensual pleasures

3 termination of a legal document

bavardage

idle gossip

thanatorium

a place where people are held before being killed / an establishment where people are received in order to be killed; a place of death

virile

adjective

(of a man) having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive

hallucinogenre

"the witches' new offered us a powerful stimulant, opening an altogether other hallucinogenre in life, on the edge of being"

effacement

to rub or wipe out; erase 

exteriority

outwardness; externality

nonsavoir

ignorance, french

vertiginous

causing vertigo, esp. by being extremely high or steep

alterity

noun

the state of being other or different; otherness

jouissance

french for joy

heterogenity

signifies diversity

libidinal

the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives

libido/sexual desire/of or relating to.

polemos

a divine personification or the embodiment of war

synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something, or vice-versa. Examples are referring to the the World Wide Web as the Internet or workers as hired hands.

excentric

not centrally placed or not having its axis or other part placed centrally, one-sided

extol

praise enthusiastically

valence

as used in psychology, especially in discussing emotions, means the intrinsic attractiveness  [positive valence] or aversiveness [negative valence] of an event, object, or situation. however, the term is also used to characterize and categorize specific emotions. for example, the emotions popularly referred to as negative, such as anger or fear, have negative valence. joy has positive valence, evoked by positively valenced events, objects, or situations. 

verstellung

german for displacement/pretense/pretending/adjustment

carceral

of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison

recalcitrant

adjective

1 having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline

noun

2 a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude

synonyms: defiant, rebellious, difficult

intractable

hard to control or deal with

obstreperous

noisy and difficult to control

refractory

adjective

1 stubborn or unmanageable

2 resistant to a process or stimulus

noun

3 a substance that is resistant to heat

obdurate

adjective

stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action

truculent (trekyelent)

adjective

eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant 

fore

the front part of something

logorrhea

to talk a lot

puissance (french)

the control of orgasmic power

scintilla (sin tila)

noun

a tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling

psychotoxic

having or being a detrimental effect on one's mind, personality, or behavior

hegemony

influence or control over another country, a group of people, etc

aegis "EGIS"

1 a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with zeus and athena

2 control or guidance especially by an individual, group, or system

ideologue

an advocate of a particular ideology, especially an official exponent of that ideology who is uncompromising and dogmatic about it. I'm an ideologue; I will do anything in my power to convince you that Courtney Love did not kill Kurt Cobain, as I believe this undeniable truth. 

inclement

adjective

(of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet

assize

noun

1 usually assizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court

2 an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assemble

3 an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry

4 an action, writ, or verdict of an assize

5 judgement; the last assize; the great assize

edict

noun

1 a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority

2 any authoritative proclamation or command

decree

noun

1 a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law: a presidential decree

2 law. a judicial decision or order

3 theology. one of the eternal purposes of God, by which events are foreordained

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), decreed, decreeing

4 to command, ordain, or decide by decree

ordain

verb used with object

1 to enact, establish by law, confer holy orders upon

verb used without object

2 to select for or appoint to an office

3 to order or command: thus do the gods ordain

foreordain

verb (used with object)

1 or ordain or appoint beforehand

2 to predestine, predetermine

sovereign

noun

1 a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler

2 a person who has supreme power or authority

3 a group or body of persons of a state having sovereign authority

4 a gold coin of the United Kingdom, equal to one pound sterling: went out of circulation after 1914

adjective

5 belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign or sovereign authority, royal

6 having supreme rank, power, or authority

7 supreme; preeminent; indisputable: a sovereign right

8 greatest in degree, utmost or extreme

9 being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc.

dictum

noun

an authoritative pronouncement

maxim

noun

1 an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one

2 a principle or rule of conduct

preeminent

adjective | adverb: preeminently

eminent above or before others, superior, surpassing

vestibule

noun

1 a small entrance hall or passage between the outer door and the interior of a house of building

2 an enclosed area at the end of a passenger car on a railroad train

3 anatomy a cavity, chamber or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity: the vestibule to the ear.

insurrection

noun

a violent uprising against an authority or government

topos

noun | plural topoi

a basic theme or concept, a convention or motif, especially a stock topic rhetoric

paucity

noun

smallness of quantity

dragnet

noun

1 a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.

2 a system or network for finding or catching someone, as a criminal wanted by the police

mimetic

adjective

1 characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry: mimetic gestures

2 mimic or make-believe

sonorous

adjective

1 giving our or capable of giving our a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern

2 loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound

3 rich and full in sound, as language or verse

4 high-flown; grandiloquent: a sonorous speech

grandiloquent

adjective

speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often or the point of being pompous or bombastic

discordant

adjective

1 being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous

2 disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh

3 geology (of strata) structurally unconformable

stereophonic

adjective

pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels/transmissions to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (opposed to monophonic, using only a single channel, and quadraphonic, the use of four channels)

ontic

adjective

possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence

noumenon | plural noumena

noun

1 the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content

2 a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or a thing as it appears

3 Kantianism. something that can be the object only or a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition

picaro

noun

a rogue or vagabond

poesy

noun

the work or the art of poetic composition

apparatus

noun

1 any complex instrument(s) or mechanism(s) for a particular purpose

2 any system of systematic organization of activities, functions, processes, etc., directed toward a specific goal

3 a group of structurally different organs working together in the performance of a particular function

decathect

verb used with object | noun: decathexis

to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss

lapsus

noun

a slip or lapse

sententious

adjective

given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous

pithy

adjective

brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible

inquest

noun

a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident, such as death.

betokens

verb

3rd person present: betokens

be a sign of; indicate

"she wondered if his cold, level gaze betokened indifference or anger"

ontology

a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being.

thrownness (german: geworfenheit)

is a concept introduced by heidegger to describe our individual existences as "being thrown" (geworfen) into the world.

primordial

adjective

existing at or from the beginning of time

antediluvian

adjective

of or belonging to the time before the biblical flood

revalorize

to change the valuation of (assets)

to replace a (currency unit) by another

cataclysmic

adjective

relating to or denoting a violent natural event

mutable (adjective) mutability (noun) mutably (adverb)

capable of or subject to change or alteration

prone to frequent change; inconstant: mutable weather patterns.

tending to undergo genetic mutation: a mutable organism; a mutable gene.

epistemology

the study of knowledge and justified belief

malmsey

a sweet fortified wine originally made in greece and now produced mainly in madeira. also called malvasia, malvoisie.

spermatic

adjective

of or relation to sperm or semen

cathexis

the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.

thanatopsis

noun

a meditation upon death, as in a poem or essay

metonymy

a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is close associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government.

fabulation

[fabulated, fabulating, fabulates]

to engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play.

comestible

noun

an item of food

adjective

edible

ineluctable

adjective

not to be avoided to escaped; inevitable

par excellence

adjective

being the best of truest of a kind; being an example of excellence; superior

figuration

noun

the act of forming something into a particular shape

a shape, form, or outline

a figurative representation

zoomorphic (adjective) zoomorphism (noun)

attribution of animal characteristics or qualities to a god

use of animal forms in symbolism, literature, or graphic representation

artifice

noun

cleverness or skill; ingenuity

stratagem

noun

a clever, often underhanded scheme for achieving an objective

resolute

adjective

firm or determined; unwavering

dubious

adjective

arousing doubt; of question character

ligature

1 the act of tying or binding

2 a cord, wire, or bandage used for tying to binding

3 something that unites, a bond

ligate

to tie up or constrict (something) with a ligature

impute

verb

3rd person present: imputes

represent (something, especially something undesirable) as being done, caused, or possessed by someone; attribute. "the crimes imputed to richard"

lament

noun

a passionate expression of grief or sorrow

verb

mourn

egregious

adjective

outstandingly bad; shocking 

reprobate

noun

an unprincipled person (often used humorously or affectionately)

adjective

unprincipled (often used humorously or affectionately)

distention

the art of expanding by pressure from within

transferential

the act or process of transferring

in psychoanalysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to the analyst.

disperse

verb

to drive off or scatter in different directions

pomp

noun

vain, dignified, or ostentatious display

supplicate

to ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.

sonic

adjective

of or relating to audible sound: a sonic wave

having a speed approaching or being that of sound in air

extremely exciting and fast-paced: a sonic lifestyle

devoration

the act of devouring

medusoid

a shape resembling a jellyfish

a jellyfish, especially a medusa

beclouds

to darken with or as if with clouds; obscure

divest

to deprive of

to be free of; rid

licentious

adjective

lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct

having no regard for accepted rules or standards

calamitous

adjective

causing or involving calamity [a disaster causing extreme havoc, misery]; disastrous

annex

to append to attach, especially to a larger or more significant thing (such as an idea, building, country)

psychodysleptic

adjective

that brings on a dreamlike mental state; hallucinogenic

Bridget Boone […] invited me to consider a couple of late-night bongs, as a kind of psychodysleptic Sominex, to help me sleep […]

psychogenic

adjective

originating from or caused by state of mind; having a psychological rather than a physiological cause

psycholeptic

noun

any medication that produces a calming effect

psychoerotic

adj.

relating to the mind and the erotic

psychograph

(in Spiritualism) a photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin

recorded moments of sensuous touch by genius loci [spirit of the space]

psychophony (plural psychophonys)

noun

auditory hallucination

psychography

noun

a description of the phenomena of mind

automatic writing

narcokleptocracy (plural narcoleptocracies)

rule by drug lords; a government run by drug traffickers 

aeolist

noun

a pompous person'; pretending to have inspiration or spiritual insight

anxitie

(obsolete, rare) care or sorrow. 

amnicolist

one who dwells by a river. 

apimania

an excessive interest in bees

apneumatic

of or pertaining to the non-existence of soul or spirit; non-spiritual

nyctophilia

a love or preference for night, darkness

cryptomnesia

having a thought you've had before without realizing that you have had the thought before

lixiviate

verb

To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.

adjective

1 Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

2 Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.

polycontexturality

(philosophy) A school of thought regarding subjectivity.

absurdism

A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

adiaphoron

An indifferent matter.

(philosophy) A matter that is morally neutral.

(theology) Something neither forbidden nor commanded by scripture.

alief

(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belief-equivalent which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.

aeviternity

(philosophy) The midpoint between time and eternity; the mode of being of the angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which mediaeval astronomy believed to be unchanging)

metaspace(s)

1 (philosophy) A space transcending ordinary physical space, such as cyberspace.

(computing theory) The conceptual space occupied by metaobjects.

biocybernetics

the application of cybernetics to biological science

biocoke

coke [solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven] produced from biomass [vegetation used as a fuel]

Terroir

the set of special characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place, interacting with plant genetics, express in agricultural products such as wine, coffee, chocolate, tomatoes, heritage wheat, cannabis, and tea.

from February 2014 Vogue: "Terroir, the taste of a thing's place of origin, does not pertain only to what grows on stems and vines. In The Physiology of Taste, published in 1825, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin explains that a partridge from Périgors cannot compare to one from Sologne."