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A toolbox of recent concepts and methods in the arts and humanities. Work in progress. Extends index.

Jump to 0, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y.

Recent additions: platform studies, communicative capitalism, glitch feminism, fauxtomation (Oct 2018), plantationocene, gynecene (Aug 2018), indigenous futurisms, editorialization, decolonial aesthetics, imperial ruination, data infrastructure literacy, meteorological turn in design (Jul 2018), diffractive publishing, post-exoticism (Jun 2018), tool criticism, feminist data visualization, demodernity (May 2018), dark anthropology, illiberal democracy, solarpunk, hydrofeminism (Apr 2018), accumulation by dispossession, pericapitalist, salvage accumulation, shadow libraries (Mar 2018), post-work, bullshit jobs, database animals, geontology (Jan 2018).

0

• 3D additivism. Allahyari & Rourke 2015, Allahyari & Rourke et al 2016.

A

• accumulation by dispossession. Harvey 2004, West 2016. See also salvage accumulation.
• adversarial design. DiSalvo 2012, WP. See also critical design.
• afro-pessimism. Winderson III 2008, Winderson III et al 2017, WP. more.
• agential realism. Barad 1997, Barad 2003, Barad 2007.
• agonistic pluralism, agonism. Mouffe 1993, Mouffe 2000, Mouffe 2013.
• algorithmic governmentality. Rouvroy & Berns 2013, Rouvroy & Stiegler 2015, Rouvroy 2016.
• alt-right. Bokhari & Yiannopoulos 2016, Nagle 2017, WP.
• archival turn in feminism. Eichhorn 2013.

B

• blaccelerationism, black accelerationism. Wark 2017, Dean 2017, Dean 2017. See also accelerationism.
• Black Atlantic. Gilroy 1993, Mercer & Bailey 1995, WP. more.
• blockchain. Nakamoto 2008, WP.
• bullshit jobs. Graeber 2013, Graeber 2018.

C

• capitalocene. Haraway 2015, Moore et al 2016. See also chthulucene.
• chthulucene. Haraway 2014, Haraway 2015, Haraway 2016. See also capitalocene.
• communicative capitalism. Dean 2012.
• community informatics. Gurstein et al 2004, WP.
• companion species. Haraway 2003, Haraway 2008.
• cosmopolitics. Stengers 1996.
• crapularity, crapject. Pickard et al 2011 [1] [2], Cramer 2017.
• critical design. Dunne 1999, Dunne & Raby 2001, Dunne & Raby 2007, MoMA 2008 (essay), MoMA 2011, MoMA 2013, WP. See also design fiction, speculative design, adversarial design.
• critical management studies. Alvesson, Willmott, et al 1992, Grey, Willmott, et al 2005, Adler, Forbes & Willmott 2007, WP.
• critical technical practice. Agre 1997, Agre 1997, Dourish et al 2004, Boehner et al 2005, WP.
• critical engineering. Oliver, Savičić & Vasiliev 2011.
• critical making. Ratto & Hockema 2009, Hertz et al 2012, WP. See also critical technical practice, critical design.
• cultural analytics. Manovich 2007/2008, Manovich 2009. See also software studies.
• curatorial activism. Reilly 2014, Reilly 2017, Madoff et al 2017.

D

• dark anthropology. Ortner 2016.
• database animals. Azuma 2001.
• data infrastructure literacy. Gray et al 2018.
• decolonial aesthetics. Mignolo et al 2011, Mignolo & Vazquez et al 2013. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
• decoloniality, decolonialism. Quijano 2007, Mignolo 2011, Mignolo & Walsh 2018, WP.
• demodernity, demodernism. Esche 2016, Esche 2017, Van Abbemuseum 2017ff. See also decoloniality.
• design fiction. Sterling 2005, Bleecker 2009, Hales et al 2013, WP. See also critical design, speculative design, diegetic prototype.
• desubstantialisation. Garcia 2011.
• diegetic prototype. Kirby 2009.
• diffraction. Haraway 1992, Butler 1993, Haraway 1997, Barad 2007, more.
• diffractive publishing. McDonald & Trettien 2018.
• digital brutalism. Deville 2014, Hacker News 2016.
• discursive design. Tharp & Tharp 2009, more.
• distant reading. Schulz 2011 [8], Moretti 2013.

E

• editorialization. Bachimont 2007, Vitali-Rosati, Wormser, Sauret & Severo 2008ff, Vitali-Rosati 2016, Vitali-Rosati 2018, WP, more.
• entreprecariat. Lorusso et al 2017.
• extrastatecraft. Easterling 2014.

F

• fauxtomation. Healy 2017, Taylor 2018.
• feminist data visualization. D'Ignazio 2015 (upd.), D'Ignazio & Klein 2016.
• folk politics. Srnicek & Williams 2015.
• forensic architecture. Weizman 2012, FA 2014, Weizman 2017, more.
• formlessness. Krauss & Bois 1996.

G

• general ecology. Hörl et al 2017.
• general intellect. Marx [1858], Wark 2017, WP.
• geontology, geontopower. Povinelli 2016.
• gig economy. Graham & Shaw et al 2017, WP.
• glitch feminism. Russell 2012, Russell 2013, Sundén 2015, Russell 2017, Russell 2018.
• gore capitalism. Valencia 2010, Valencia 2018, more.
• Gulf futurism. Al Qadiri & Al-Maria 2011, more. See also Sinofuturism.
• gynecene. Pirici & Voinea 2015.

H

• hacker class. Wark 2004, Wark 2015. See also vectoralist class.
• hydrofeminism. Neimanis 2012, LAE 2018, [9].

I

• illiberal democracy. Zakaria 1997, Orbán 2014, WP.
• imperial ruination, imperial debris. Stoler et al 2008, Stoler et al 2013.
• indigenous futurisms. Dillon et al 2012, Dillon et al 2016, Lempert et al 2018, WP.
• infrastructural inversion. Bowker 1994, Bowker & Star 1999, Hunger 2016.
• intra-action. Barad 1996, Barad 2003, Barad 2007, Haraway 2008.

K

• kit-of-no-parts. Perner-Wilson 2011, more.

M

• meteorological turn in design. GSD Harvard 2016.
• multispecies, multispecies studies. Kirksey, Helmreich et al 2010, Kirksey et al 2011, Dooren et al 2016.

N

• necropolitics. Mbembe 2003, WP.

O

• optical unconscious. Krauss 1993.
• organisational aesthetics. Fuller 2010, Goriunova 2011, Goriunova 2011.

P

• pericapitalist. Tsing 2015.
• plantationocene. Haraway 2015, Haraway et al 2016.
• plasticity. Malabou 1996, Malabou 2004, Malabou 2009.
• platform cooperativism. Scholz 2014, Scholz 2016, Scholz & Schneider et al 2016.
• platform studies. Montford & Bogost et al 2009ff, Anable 2018.
• playbour. Kücklich 2005, Scholz et al 2012.
• poetic computation. SFPC 2013, Tenen 2017, Choi 2017.
• post-blackness. Golden 2001, more, more, WP.
• post-culturalist art history. Davis et al 2017.
• post-cyber feminism. Hester 2017, Hester & Doubal et al 2017. See also cyberfeminism.
• post-exoticism. Volodine 2015 [10] [11].
• post-work. Weeks 2011, Srnicek & Williams 2015, Hester 2016, Srnicek 2016. See also accelerationism.
• proxy politics. RCPP 2014, Steyerl 2014, RCPP 2017.

Q

• queer necropolitics. Puar 2007, Haritaworn et al 2017.

R

• reflectionism. Mann 1998. See also sousveillance, détournement.
• retrocomputing. Galloway 2011, Takhteyev & DuPont 2013, Kirschenbaum 2016.
• Romafuturism. Gažiová et al 2017.

S

• salvage accumulation. Tsing 2015. See also accumulation by dispossession.
• scholarly semantic information. Vilhena et al 2014.
• science fiction prototyping. CSF 2011, WP.
• shadow libraries. Liang 2012, Bodó 2014, Dockray & Liang 2015, Snelting et al 2017, Karaganis et al 2018.
• Sinofuturism. Lek 2016, Zhang 2017. See also Gulf futurism.
• situated openness. Traynor & Foster 2017.
• solarpunk. Valentine 2015, Wilk 2018.
• solutionism. Morozov 2013.
• sousveillance. Mann 2002, Mann et al 2003, WP. See also reflectionism.
• speculative design. Auger 2012, Auger 2013, Auger 2014. See also critical design, design fiction.
• speculative realist feminism. Kolozova & Joy et al 2016.
• stack. Bratton 2016.
• survivance. Vizenor 1994, et al 2008, WP.

T

• techno-colonialism. Bush 2002 [12], Bush 2015 [13].
• technosphere. Sloterdijk 2010, Nancy 2011/2014, Haff 2016, Jäger et al 2016, Technosphere 2016.
• tool criticism. Koolen, van Gorp & van Ossenbruggen 2018, Van Es, Wieringa & Schäfer 2018.

U

• undercommons. Harney & Moten 2013.

V

• vectoralist class. Wark 2004, Wark 2015. See also hacker class.

X

• xenofeminism. Laboria Cuboniks 2015, Hester 2018. See also cyberfeminism.

Y

• young-girl. Tiqqun 1999, Tiqqun 2001.