jjj: Post-Structuralist Buzzwords: list

This list developed with the aid of Jed Deppman, John Gastil, David Huddleston, Elliott Moreton, Jim Moskowitz, David Salmanson, Garth Snyder, and various others. It's not to be considered complete or canonical; I'll probably ignore any additional items sent to me.

  • abjection
  • abyss
  • agency
  • anasemia
  • angst
  • aporia
  • archetype
  • bipolarity
  • colonizing
  • commodification
  • construct (n.)
  • contextuality
  • contingent
  • deconstruction
  • demotic
  • dereferenced
  • dialectic
  • dichotomy
  • differance
  • discourse
  • discursive consciousness
  • doctrine
  • double hermeneutic
  • duality of structure
  • encoding
  • epiphenomenal
  • ethnopoetics
  • explication
  • formalist
  • Foucaultian
  • framing
  • (the) Gaze
  • gendered (adj.)
  • hegemony
  • hermeneutics
  • historicity
  • hypertext
  • identities
  • images
  • instantiated
  • intersocietal systems
  • interstices
  • isms
  • knowledgeability
  • knowledges
  • Lacanian
  • lacuna(e)
  • lapsarian (maybe can only be used with "post-" or "pre-"?)
  • liminal
  • marginalized
  • masks
  • master narrative
  • meme
  • meta-
  • mimesis
  • (the) modern (n.)
  • modernity
  • myths
  • narrative
  • nukespeak
  • objectivity
  • ontological security
  • oppression
  • (the) Other
  • paradigm
  • phallocracy
  • phallogocentric
  • poiesis
  • polemic
  • polysemy
  • pomo
  • post-
  • pre-
  • privileged
  • racialized
  • reflexive monitoring of action
  • reify
  • reine sprache
  • revisit
  • routinization
  • semiotics
  • sexualities
  • socially constructed
  • spatialized
  • stratification
  • structuralist
  • structuration
  • subaltern
  • subjectivity
  • subtext
  • synecdoche
  • text
  • theory (sans-adj.)
  • transgressive
  • undecidability
  • voices (voicing)
  • (general LeftSpeak buzzwords start here)
  • accepting (adj.)
  • affirm
  • celebrate
  • diversity
  • empower
  • hierarchical
  • hyphenated-American
  • patriarchy
  • nurture
  • rethinking
  • self-esteem
  • socioeconomic
  • sociopolitical
  • space
  • validate
  • zeitgeist

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