Vocabulary: Understanding Concepts

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Recounting anecdotes and honoring lived experiences Vocab:
11/7/19

• Anecdote: a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• Theorizing: the forming of a theory or theories about something
• Recount: tell someone about something; give an account of an event or experience
• Honor: high respect; great esteem
• Experience: practical contact with and observation of facts or events

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Constructing social memories Vocab:
11/7/19

• Synthesis: the combination of ideas to form a theory or system
• Social: relating to society or its organization
• Memory: something remembered from the past; a recollection
• Fragment: a small part broken or separated off something
• Manifold: a pipe or chamber branching into several openings
• Unification: the process of being united or made into a whole
• Construct: build or erect (something, typically a building, road, or machine)
• Nascent: just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential

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Cybernetics and your fishbowls Vocab:
11/8/19

• Complex: consisting of many different and connected parts
• Cybernetics (wiki): a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities
• Codify: arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code
• Phenomenology: an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience

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Please fact-check … Vocab:
11/9/19

• Abstract: existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence
• Evolution: the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms
• Emergence: the process of coming into view or becoming exposed after being concealed
• Appearance: the way that someone or something looks

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Complex adaptive systems Vocab:
11/10/19

• Improvise: create and perform spontaneously or without preparation
• Art: the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance
• Complex: consisting of many different and connected parts
• Adaptive: providing, contributing to, or marked by adaption: arising as a result of adaptation
• System: a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network

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It was good to see you again Vocab:
11/19/19
• Layer: a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
• Evoke: bring or recall to the conscious mind
• Diverse: showing a great deal of variety; very different
• Image: a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art
• Inter-subjective: existing between conscious minds; shared by more than one conscious mind
• Space: a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied

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Looking at ourselves again Vocab:
11/24/19

• Labyrinth: a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to fine one’s way; a maze

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Reflecting on one’s history Vocab:
11/28/19

• Systematic: done or acting according to a fixed plan or system; methodical
• Interplay: the way in which two or more thins have an effect on each other
• Reflective: providing a reflection; capable of reflecting light or other radiation
• Centrality: the quality or fact of being in the middle of somewhere or something

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Thoughts, the morning after thanksgiving Vocab:
11/29/19

• Intersection: a point or line common to lines or surfaces that intersect
• Dimension: a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth or height
• Perspective: a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view
• Distance: an amount of space between two things or people
• Footnote: an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page
• Center: the middle point of a circle or sphere, equidistant from every point of the circumference or surface
• Compelling: evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way
• Living: the pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type
• Trope: a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
• “other”-google: used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about

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Voguing (345) Vocab:
12/1/19

• Striking: attracting attention by reason of being unusual, extreme, or prominent
• Pose: assume a particular attitude or position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn
• Flow: move along or out steadily and continuously in a current or stream
• Moving: marked by or capable of movement
• Social: relating to society or its organization
• Entity: a thing with distinct and independent existence

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Mutation/motion Vocab:
12/2/19

• Mutation: the action of process of mutating
• Motion: the action or process of moving or being moved

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Creating social memories and inter-subjective spaces Vocab:
12/2/19

• Memory: the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information