Vocabulary: Understanding Concepts

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• Sociality: The tendency to associate in or form social groups
• Structure: Something arranged in a definite pattern of organization
• Individuation/ individuate; Gilbert Simondon: Individuation according to gilbert Simondon is an ever-incomplete process, it always creates both an individual subject and a collective subject, which individuate themselves concurrently
• Flow: To proceed smoothly or readily
• Derrida; Deconstruction: Questions the fundamental conceptual distinctions, or “oppositions” though a close examination of the language and logic of texts
• Social reflexivity; Anthony Giddens: Refers to a world increasingly constituted by information, Possible in any social system, according to Giddens society is becoming increasingly more self-aware, reflective, and reflexive
• Practice: To do or perform often as to become proficient
• Process: A series of actions or operations conducing to an end
• Activity: The quality or state of being active
• Learning: Knowledge of skill acquired by instruction or study
• Society: A large social group sharing the same geographic or social territory
• Unabated: Without any reduction in intensity or strength
• Archive: A place where public records or materials are preserve

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• Focus: directed attention, center of attraction or attention
• Evoke: Bring or recall to the conscious mind
• Contemplate: when you think profoundly and for a long amount of time about something
• Difference: a way in which people or things are not the same
• Making: the process of producing something
• Designing: the act or art of making designs
• Space: depending on the use of the word it can be the incalculably 3D expanse in which all material objects are located or to set some distance apart
• Social: relating to interaction with other people
• Innovative: featuring new methods, advances, and original

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Virtual Reality: Our Digital Escape
Vocab:

• Reflect: to think deeply or carefully about something
• Repeat: to say or do something again after already being said or done
• Phrase: a small group of words put together as a unit
• Select: to choose from a number or group by preference

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Re-structuring text Vocab:

• Re-structure: to organize differently
• Create: to bring something into existence
• Value: the importance, worth, or usefulness of something
• Share: a part of a larger amount divided among an amount of people
• Process: a series of steps taken in order to achieve a certain end
• Reflection: a thought, idea, or opinion formed as a result of meditation
• Solitude: the state or situation or being alone
• Learning: knowledge acquired through experience, study, or being taught

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Sharing what we see when we read:
9/13 Vocab:

• Theatre: a building or outdoor area where plays and other performances are give
• Metaphor: a figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
• See: to perceive by the eye
• Image: a visual representation of something
• Move: to go or pass to another place with continuous motion
• Play: an act, way, or manner of proceeding
• Frame: the underlying constructional system or structure that gives shape or strength
• Structure: something arranged in a definite pattern of organization
• Scene: a division of an act presenting continuous action in one place
• Across: from one side to the opposite side
• Aisle: a passage separating sections of seats
• Syntax: the way linguistic elements are put together to form constituents
• Conjure: to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
• Relevant: having significant bearing on the matter at hand
• Reading: a particular interpretation of something
• Interpret: to explain or tell the meaning of in understandable terms
• Process: a series of actions or operations conducing to an end
• Hub: a center of activity/the center part of a circular object
• Network: an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system
• Become: as Deleuze explains, the process of becoming is not one of imitation, it is generative of a new way of being that is function of influences rather than resemblances
• Singularity: something that is singular
• Different: partly or totally unlike in nature form or quality
• Connect: to become joined
• Destiny: something to which a person or thing is destined

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"Logistics" Vocab:
9/15

• Raised: having a pattern or design projecting from a background
• Shared: used, done, belonging to, or experienced by two or more individuals
• Right: being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper
• Moment: a minute portion or point of time
• Topic: the subject of a discourse or of a section of a discourse

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"Question" Vocab:
9/15

• Chaos: a state of utter confusion
• Confusion: the quality or state of being confused
• Embrace: to take up especially readily or gladly
• Resistance: the power or capacity to resist

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"Simulating a Society" Vocab:
9/17

• Platform: a usually raised horizontal flat surface
• Momentous: of great important or significance, especially in its bearing on the future
• Formation: an act of giving form or shape to something o
• Dramatic: striking in appearance, behavior, or effect
• Transform: to change in composition or structure
• Understanding: the power of comprehending
• Mapping: an operation that associate each element of a given set with one or more elements of a second set
• Simulate: to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive

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"Reading the other's text" Vocab:
9/18

• Immerse: to plunge into something that surrounds or covers
• Deep: extending far from some surface or area
• Understanding: a mental grasp, the power of comprehending
• Mode: a particular form or variety of something
• Reading: a particular interpretation of something

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"New forms of intimacy and friendship"
9/19:

• Intimacy: an intimate act, close familiarity or friendship, a private cozy atmosphere
• Agency: the office or function of an agent
• Emotion: a conscious mental reaction, experiences as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object
• Creativity: the ability to create
• Self: an individual’s typical character or behavior
• Form: the shape and structure of something as distinguished from its material
• Friendship: the quality or state of being friends

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"Theory of Assemblages" Vocab:
9/20

• Social: marked by or passed in pleasant companionship with friends or associates
• Ontology: a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence
• Autonomy: the quality or state of being self-governing
• Entity: something that has separate and distinct existence ad objective or conceptual reality
• Assemblage: a collection of persons or things
• Flow: to move with a continual change of place among the constituent particles

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"Reassembling the Social"
vocab: 9/26

• Sift: to put a fine substance through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles
• Sort: a category of things or people having some common feature; a type
• Select: choose from a number or group by fitness or preference
• Assemble: to bring together, to fit together the parts of
• Associate: to join as a partner, friend, or companion
• Emerge: to rise from or as if from an enveloping fluid; come out to view
• Enter: to go or come in
• Reveal: to make through divine inspiration