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."