LEXICUM: 100 Concepts + 100 Authors
The Socioplastics Lexicum is an operative conceptual infrastructure designed for human reading, machine traversal, archival deposit and critical field formation. It comprises 100 canonical concepts, each paired with a principal theoretical figure, broadly arranged in alphabetical sequence across ten packages of ten entries. Each entry carries a dense definition, a socioplastic reframing (translating the concept into the vocabulary of field formation, archive theory and knowledge infrastructure), standardised Harvard references with original publication dates, cross-references to related concepts, and thematic tags. The Lexicum functions simultaneously as a research tool, a pedagogical device, a metadata architecture and a contribution to transdisciplinary critical theory. It is built to be cited, indexed, queried and expanded.
Keywords: Socioplastics · Critical Theory · Conceptual Infrastructure · Field Formation · Archive Theory · Epistemology · Metadata · Transdisciplinarity
100 Concepts + 100 Authors
| # | Concept | Author | # | Concept | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | ABJECTION | Julia Kristeva | 51 | INDIVIDUATION | Gilbert Simondon |
| 02 | ACTOR-NETWORK | Bruno Latour | 52 | INTENTIONALITY | Edmund Husserl |
| 03 | ALTERITY | Emmanuel Levinas | 53 | INTERSECTIONALITY | Kimberlé Crenshaw |
| 04 | ART WORLD | Howard Becker | 54 | INVISIBLE HAND | Adam Smith |
| 05 | AURA | Walter Benjamin | 55 | LANGUAGE-GAME | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| 06 | AUTOPOIESIS | Niklas Luhmann | 56 | LEVERAGE POINTS | Donella Meadows |
| 07 | BAD FAITH | Jean-Paul Sartre | 57 | LIQUID MODERNITY | Zygmunt Bauman |
| 08 | BARE LIFE | Giorgio Agamben | 58 | LONGUE DURÉE | Fernand Braudel |
| 09 | BECOMING-WOMAN | Simone de Beauvoir | 59 | MANUFACTURING CONSENT | Noam Chomsky |
| 10 | BEING-WITH | Jean-Luc Nancy | 60 | MATRIX OF DOMINATION | Patricia Hill Collins |
| 11 | BINARY OPPOSITION | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 61 | MIMETIC DESIRE | René Girard |
| 12 | CIVILISING PROCESS | Norbert Elias | 62 | MODE OF PRODUCTION | Karl Marx |
| 13 | CLOSET | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 63 | MULTIPLE REALITIES | Alfred Schütz |
| 14 | COGNITIVE MAPPING | Fredric Jameson | 64 | MYTH | Roland Barthes |
| 15 | COMMUNICATIVE ACTION | Jürgen Habermas | 65 | NECROPOLITICS | Achille Mbembe |
| 16 | COMPLAINT | Sara Ahmed | 66 | NEGATIVE DIALECTICS | Theodor W. Adorno |
| 17 | CONTACT ZONE | Mary Louise Pratt | 67 | NIHILISM | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 18 | COSMOPOLITICS | Isabelle Stengers | 68 | NORMAL SCIENCE | Thomas S. Kuhn |
| 19 | CRUEL OPTIMISM | Lauren Berlant | 69 | OCCASION | Alfred North Whitehead |
| 20 | CYBORG | Donna Haraway | 70 | ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN | Herbert Marcuse |
| 21 | DASEIN | Martin Heidegger | 71 | ORIENTALISM | Edward W. Said |
| 22 | DECONSTRUCTION | Jacques Derrida | 72 | PALIMPSEST | Gérard Genette |
| 23 | DEFAMILIARISATION | Viktor Shklovsky | 73 | PANOPTICON | Jeremy Bentham |
| 24 | DIFFEREND | Jean-François Lyotard | 74 | PARALLAX | Slavoj Žižek |
| 25 | DOUBLE BIND | Gregory Bateson | 75 | PERFORMATIVITY | Judith Butler |
| 26 | DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS | W. E. B. Du Bois | 76 | STATE LEGIBILITY | James C. Scott |
| 27 | DRAMATURGY | Erving Goffman | 77 | PRAGMATISM | William James |
| 28 | DURATION | Henri Bergson | 78 | RATIONALISATION | Max Weber |
| 29 | EMBEDDEDNESS | Karl Polanyi | 79 | DISTRIBUTION OF THE SENSIBLE | Jacques Rancière |
| 30 | EMPTY PLACE OF POWER | Claude Lefort | 80 | RECOGNITION | Axel Honneth |
| 31 | ENCODING / DECODING | Stuart Hall | 81 | RHIZOME | Deleuze & Guattari |
| 32 | ENUNCIATION | Émile Benveniste | 82 | RISK SOCIETY | Ulrich Beck |
| 33 | EPISTEME | Michel Foucault | 83 | SEMIOSIS | Charles Sanders Peirce |
| 34 | EPISTEMIC BREAK | Gaston Bachelard | 84 | SIGN | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| 35 | ETHNOMETHODOLOGY | Harold Garfinkel | 85 | SIMULACRUM | Jean Baudrillard |
| 36 | EVENT | Alain Badiou | 86 | SOCIAL FACT | Émile Durkheim |
| 37 | FUNCTIONS | Vladimir Propp | 87 | SOCIAL IMAGINARY | Charles Taylor |
| 38 | FUSION OF HORIZONS | Hans-Georg Gadamer | 88 | SOCIAL REPRODUCTION | Silvia Federici |
| 39 | GAIA | James Lovelock | 89 | SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION | C. Wright Mills |
| 40 | GIFT | Marcel Mauss | 90 | SOVEREIGNTY | Carl Schmitt |
| 41 | GRID / GROUP | Mary Douglas | 91 | SPEECH ACT | J. L. Austin |
| 42 | HABITUS | Pierre Bourdieu | 92 | STRANGER | Georg Simmel |
| 43 | HEGEMONY | Antonio Gramsci | 93 | STRUCTURATION | Anthony Giddens |
| 44 | HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION | Paul Ricœur | 94 | SUBALTERN | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| 45 | HORIZON OF EXPECTATION | Reinhart Koselleck | 95 | TECHNICS | Bernard Stiegler |
| 46 | HYBRIDITY | Homi K. Bhabha | 96 | THE NEUTER | Maurice Blanchot |
| 47 | I AND THOU | Martin Buber | 97 | THICK DESCRIPTION | Clifford Geertz |
| 48 | IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS | Louis Althusser | 98 | VITA ACTIVA | Hannah Arendt |
| 49 | IMAGINARY | Jacques Lacan | 99 | PATCHINESS | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing |
| 50 | IMAGINED COMMUNITIES | Benedict Anderson | 100 | ZONE OF NON-BEING | Frantz Fanon |
About the Lexicum
The Lexicum is organised into ten packages of ten entries each. Each entry carries a unique node identifier, full definition, socioplastic reframing, Harvard references and cross-references to related concepts. Read for human depth. Built for machine traversal. Ready for archive deposit.
See also: Socioplastics Project Index
