Keywords

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, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z.

Recent additions: critical dataset studies (May 2022), zoo-futurism, philosophical ethology, low theory (Jun 2021), capitalist realism (Mar 2021), data colonialism, destituent power, platform capitalism (Dec 2020), geopower, communard (Nov 2020), post-politics, acid communism (Oct 2020), instituent practices, operational image (Aug 2020), infrastructural speculation, patchwork ethnography, medium design, posthuman capitalism (Jul 2020), lumbung (Jun 2020), neofeudalism, lithium punk (May 2020), agropoetics (Mar 2020), thin description (Oct 2019), postcolonial piracy, data dramatisation, axiomatic functionalism (Sep 2019), performative publishing, performative materiality (Aug 2019), pirate care, alterbiopolitics, matters of care, fifth cinema, gynepunk, shareveillance (Jul 2019), response-ability (May 2019), data violence, collections as data (Apr 2019), ergodynamics (Mar 2019), infrapolitics, surveillance capitalism, dispossession by surveillance (Jan 2019), precariat (Dec 2018), 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.
• acid communism. Fisher 2016/2018, Gilbert 2017, Plan C 2018, Jurt, Werthschulte, et al 2021.
• adversarial design. DiSalvo 2012, WP. See also critical design.
• afro-pessimism. Winderson III 2008, Winderson III et al 2017, Thomas 2018, WP. more. [1]
• agential realism. Barad 1997, Barad 2003, Barad 2007.
• agonism, agonistic pluralism. Mouffe 1993, Mouffe 2000, Mouffe 2013.
• agropoetics. Agudio, Boschen et al 2019, Agudio, Boschen, Sandoval et al 2020.
• algorithmic governmentality. Rouvroy & Berns 2013, Rouvroy & Stiegler 2015, Rouvroy 2016.
• alt-right. Bokhari & Yiannopoulos 2016, Nagle 2017, WP.
• alterbiopolitics. Puig de la Bellacasa 2017.
• archival turn in feminism. Eichhorn 2013.
• Asia-futurism, Sinofuturism. Lek 2016, Chan 2016, Wang 2017, Zhang 2017, Wong 2020, Conn et al 2020, [2]. See also Gulf futurism.
• axiomatic functionalism. Kubota et al 2017.

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

• capitalist realism. Fisher 2009, Shonkwiler, La Berge et al 2014, Faris et al 2015.
• capitalocene. Haraway 2015, Moore et al 2016. See also chthulucene.
• chthulucene. Haraway 2014, Haraway 2015, Haraway 2016. See also capitalocene.
• collections as data. Always Already Computational 2017f, Always Already Computational 2018.
• communard. Las Indias 2016, Carson 2016.
• communicative capitalism. Dean 2012.
• community informatics. Gurstein et al 2004, WP.
• companion species. Haraway 2003, Haraway 2008, Tsing 2012.
• cosmopolitics. Stengers 1996.
• crapularity, crapject. Pickard et al 2011 [3] [4], Cramer 2017.
• critical dataset studies. Thylstrup 2022 [5].
• 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, infrastructural speculation.
• 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 colonialism, digital colonialism. Thatcher, O'Sullivan & Mahmoudi 2016, Couldry & Mejias 2018, Kwet 2019, Couldry & Mejias 2019, Couldry & Mejias 2019 [6].
• data dramatisation. Young 2014, Akten 2015, Young 2018.
• data infrastructure literacy. Gray et al 2018.
• data violence. Hoffmann 2018, AI Now 2019.
• decolonial aesthetics. Mignolo et al 2011, Mignolo & Vazquez et al 2013. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11].
• 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, infrastructural speculation.
• destituent power. Colectivo Situaciones 2002/2011, Agamben 2014, Carter et al 2020. [12]
• desubstantialisation. Garcia 2011.
• diegetic prototype. Kirby 2009.
• diffraction. Haraway 1992, Butler 1993, Haraway 1997, Barad 2007, Kaiser, Thiele, et al 2017, more.
• diffractive publishing. McDonald & Trettien 2018.
• digital brutalism. Deville 2014, Hacker News 2016.
• discursive design. Tharp & Tharp 2009, more.
• dispossession by surveillance. Zuboff 2016.
• distant reading. Schulz 2011 [13], 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, Lorusso 2018. See also precariat.
• ergodynamics. Magnusson 2018, Magnusson 2019, Magnusson 2019.
• extrastatecraft. Easterling 2014.

F

• fauxtomation. Healy 2017, Taylor 2018.
• feminist data visualization. D'Ignazio 2015 (upd.), D'Ignazio & Klein 2016.
• fifth cinema. Kaur & Grassilli 2019.
• 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, Povinelli, Coleman, Yusoff 2017.
• geopower. Grosz 2008, Yusoff, Grosz, Clark, Saldanha, Nash 2012, Grosz, Yusoff, Clark 2017.
• gig economy. Graham & Shaw et al 2017, WP.
• glitch feminism. Russell 2012, Russell 2013, Sundén 2015, Russell 2017, Russell 2018, Russell 2020.
• gore capitalism. Valencia 2010, more.
• Gulf futurism. Al Qadiri & Al-Maria 2011, more. See also Sinofuturism.
• gynecene. Pirici & Voinea 2015.
• gynepunk. Kazi-Tani & Mourrier 2017.

H

• hacker class. Wark 2004, Wark 2015. See also vectoralist class.
• hydrofeminism. Neimanis 2012 [14], LAE 2018, Bordorff 2018.

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.
• infrapolitics. Scott 1990, Marche et al 2012, WP.
• infrastructural inversion. Bowker 1994, Bowker & Star 1999, Hunger 2016.
• infrastructural speculation. Wang et al 2020. See also speculative design, critical design, design fiction.
• instituent practices. Raunig 2006, Nowotny 2006, Raunig 2007, Raunig & Nowotny 2008/2016, Kiesewetter, Kolb, et al 2019, Hunn, McAnally, et al 2019.
• intra-action. Barad 1996, Barad 2003, Barad 2007, Haraway 2008.

K

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

L

• lithium punk. Kera & Šourek 2019. See also solarpunk.
• low theory. Wark 2011, Wark 2011, McCann 2013.
• lumbung. ruangrupa 2019, ruangrupa 2020, ruangrupa & Papastergiadis 2021.

M

• matters of care. Puig de la Bellacasa 2011, Martin, Myers & Viseu 2015, Puig de la Bellacasa 2017.
• medium design. Easterling 2019, Easterling 2021.
• 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, Valencia 2010, Mbembe 2016, Critical Art Ensemble 2018, Lushetich et al 2018, WP.
• neofeudalism. Dean 2020. WP.

O

• operational image. Farocki 2001, Farocki 2004, Paglen 2014, Eder, Klonk et al 2016.
• optical unconscious. Krauss 1993.
• organisational aesthetics. Fuller 2010, Goriunova 2011, Goriunova 2011.

P

• patchwork ethnography. Günel, Varma & Chika Watanabe 2020.
• performative materiality. Drucker 2013, Adema 2018. See also performative publishing.
• performative publication, performative publishing. Long 2013, Adema 2018. See also performative materiality.
• pericapitalist. Tsing 2015.
• philosophical ethology. Lestel et al 2014, Despret et al 2015, Marchesini et al 2016, Marchesini 2017, WP. See also zoo-futurism.
• pirate care. Graziano 2018, Centre for Postdigital Cultures 2019.
• plantationocene. Haraway 2015, Haraway et al 2016, Edge Effects 2019.
• plasticity. Malabou 1996, Malabou 2004, Malabou 2009.
• platform capitalism. Lobo 2014, Olma 2014, Wark 2016, Kenney & Zysman 2016, Hall 2016, Srnicek 2016, Langley & Leyshon 2017, WP. See also surveillance capitalism.
• 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, Touré 2011, Davis 2015, Murray 2015, Crawford 2017, more, more, WP, WP.
• postcolonial piracy. Sundaram 2009, Eckstein 2017.
• 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 [15] [16].
• posthuman capitalism. Nesbitt 2018, Žižek 2018, Braidotti 2019, Žižek 2020.
• post-politics. Mouffe 2005.
• post-work. Weeks 2011, Srnicek & Williams 2015, Hester 2016, Srnicek 2016, Quaranta & Janša 2019. See also accelerationism.
• precariat, precarity. Middlesex Declaration 2004, Brinkmann et al 2006, Castel, Dörre et al 2009, Standing 2011, Standing 2014, WP, WP. See also entreprecariat.
• 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.
• response-ability. Haraway 2008, Haraway 2015.
• retrocomputing. Galloway 2011, Takhteyev & DuPont 2013, Kirschenbaum 2016.
• Romafuturism. Gažiová et al 2017, Gažiová et al 2018 [17], Gažiová 2018, Drăgan 2019, Drăgan 2020.

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.
• shareveillance. Birchall 2016, Birchall 2017.
• situated openness. Traynor & Foster 2017.
• solarpunk. Lodi-Ribeiro et al 2012, Louise 2014, Flynn 2014, Valentine 2015, Hudson 2015, Wilk 2018, Solarpunk Community 2019, WP. See also lithium punk. [18] [19]
• 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, infrastructural speculation.
• speculative realist feminism. Kolozova & Joy et al 2016.
• stack. Bratton 2016.
• surveillance capitalism. Foster & McChesney 2014, Zuboff 2014, Zuboff 2015, Zuboff 2019, Wood, Monahan et al 2019, WP. See also platform capitalism.
• survivance. Vizenor 1994, et al 2008, WP.

T

• techno-colonialism. Bush 2002 [20], Bush 2015 [21].
• technosphere. Sloterdijk 2010, Nancy 2011/2014, Haff 2016, Jäger et al 2016, Technosphere 2016.
• thin description. Jackson 2013.
• tool criticism. Koolen, van Gorp & van Ossenbruggen 2018, Van Es, Wieringa & Schäfer 2018.

U

• undercommons. Harney & Moten 2013, TkH 2016, Moten 2016, Shukaitis 2019, Carter et al 2020.

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.

Z

• zoo-futurism. Lestel 2020. See also philosophical ethology.