Glossary

Agent
            Anyone/thing that has conscious decision to influence its adjacent mesh. 


*Anthropocene*
           (to Haraway) The name given to the geological age brought upon by mass industrialisation and capitalism. Meaning ‘hand-tool’ and referring to the Earth changing by means of human acceleration, the word puts humanity on a geological pedestal over other *species*, many of which also have hands and also use tools. Overall, a term embedded with superiority complex, and incorrectly suggesting the end of the Holocene being due to human use of tools, rather than their use of toxic systems. 


Away

            (to Morton) The sphere in which one’s residue disappears to, without second thought of where it might go. 


Binary
            (to Haraway) The compulsion to see the world as ‘black and white’ dividing, compartmentalising and pitching *things* as opposites to naturalise division and disassociate from committing violence against an ‘other’.


Capitalocene

            (to Haraway) The geological age post-industrial revolution often described as the *Anthropocene* recontextualised to give credit to it’s true origin: hegemonic Capitalism.


Commodity Fetishism
            Compulsive consumerism as manifested by living with constant onslaught of advertisements. Extending to the body, and the ‘self’ as well as products, and contextualising people as products to be bought and sold internally and externally. 


Craftanoon
            Crafting specifically from found materials in the afternoon. 


Cunt
            (to Pathojen) the peak of attractive norms within Queer communities, often something desirable, fabulous, and feminine.


Divine Craft
            The intersection between scavenging for found materials, storytelling, making and play. A continuous meditating with material and thus Gaia, listening to their stories and intertwining through mutually making one another. 


Eukaryote
            Multi-cellular organisms or complex cells. In complex cells, they contain a nucleus that was once an independent prokaryote assimilated into another prokaryote through endosymbiosis. An example of our ability to eat each other kindly. 


Gaia
(to Lovelock) Name given to earth as a super-organism, from biosphere to critters. Gaia is self-regulating, complete, and balanced, maintained by its delicate systems of biodiversity.


Geish
            (to Pathojen) Styled adornment on (often queer) bodies that provide the wearer with a sense of fantasy fulfilment.


Gift Economy
            (to Kimmerer) Functional, sustainable and reciprocal system between critters, in which anything taken is perceived as a gift, and thus not taken with self-intention. 


Glitch

            (to Russel) A scratch in rigorous capitalist systems in which anti-capitalist, anti-binary, anti-gender, anti-consumerist ideologies have space to flourish. Glitching is the act of creating and/or expanding these scratches. 


Idiot
            (to Han) One who cannot conform to status quo, thus perceived an ‘idiot’ by the mass population who act by, thus manifesting this system. True ra


*Independence*
            (to Butler) An idea fabricated to support individualism that does not see beyond the body when talking about any agent. A phantasy, thoroughly, we are essentially interdependent, intra-dependant beings, reliant on gravity, the pavement, mitochondria in our cells, weather patterns, etc. 


Material
            Matter. All substance that constructs the physical world, including thought, as it exists between firing synapses, including *virtual* worlds as they exist in hard drives, routers and radio waves. 


Mesh
            The web of interconnected, intra-active agents, composed from paths of communication, rather than objects. There is no objects, simply the relationships between things, where these gather, and where these can be effected; by points of agency. 


Monetary Economy
            A system that uses abstract, quantitative values assigned to otherwise meaningless objects to acquire things instead of building the necessary relationships and/or knowledge required to acquire them. 


*Natural*
            A distinction made to separate man and man-made environments from environments separate and untouched by humanity. The true natural world is everything within Gaia human and not, and thus the term more-than-human world (Bridle) has been adopted when talking about places often, and incorrectly, referred to as *natural*.


Phantasy
            (to Butler) Narrative fantasies that are adopted by mass and interpreted as fact, influencing thought regardless of their falsity. i.e. Gender.  


Response – Ability
            Our ability as agents to respond to and effect our adjacent mesh, and thus the mesh as a whole. Our responsibility not as an abstract idea, but as a material, possible thing we can achieve. 


*Species*
            (to Bridle) Hangover from traditional Darwinism and compartmentalised thinking. Boarders given between critters that are essentially entangled and have messy, interloping origins. 


Symbolic
            Existing as a sector of the material, and influencing the material world, the symbolic world is that in which abstract ideas are naturalised and given often disproportionate power. The thinking sphere, manifested through language. 


The Trouble
            (to Haraway) Planetary disaster, global warming, wild place fattening, the massacre of biodiversity, the segregation and superiority of humanity. 


Trash-Geish
            Geish made purely from scavenged materials, literally trash. 


*Virtual*
            A supposedly parallel, techno-landscape. Truly a landscape of the symbolic, embedded within material.