Glossary Terms

While third world countries come to denote underdeveloped countries, the classification of countries into these three groups are reflective of geopolitical and ideological chart of post-World War 2. 1st world represents, geopolitical and ideological unit of liberal democracies and their integrated capitalist economies. It comes to denote also a level of industrial development as well as achievement of cultural liberties. The term often obscures inner contradictions and injustices of 1st world. 2nd world meant the countries which are the sphere of influence of socialist revolutionary political system. With the end of soviet experiment, this set has no members. 3rd world countries describes countries whose alliance is not one-dimensional to either of these camps. Their association is most clearly articulated in the non-aligned movement. Yet, the term also used pejoratively to denote underdeveloped, ‘backward’ countries which are yet to fully modernize where modernization often taken to be integration into the capitalist market economy.

Primary one among equals. Monarchs (Kings and Queens) in the medieval feudal Europe were not seen as qualitatively different from other nobility.

An understanding of the relationship between phenomena based on probabilistically emergent sensory qualities.

competitive

Throwing light on something, bringing something to visibility. Greek metaphysical principle that binds together seeing and knowing. Commented most prominently by philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Related to the philosophy of Rene Descartes

Idea of voluntary participation that underpins the systems of political representation such as democracy.

heterogeneous overlaying of different political, technical and cultural formations with the result of formation of generative as well as disrupted milieus.

Ubiquitous operativity of sensing, tracking and analytic uses of data

social scientific research method whereby scholar visits the field with the goal of experiencing the object of study first hand. This work lends itself to open-ended research processes departing from given questions into themes and problematics emergent from field encounters.

research approach that priotizes overdetermined historical causality as well as transformation of purpose of a cultural technique beyond the original environment of its germination. Discipliniary techniques may have emerged in monasteries for gaining control over physiological pressures on mind but its utilization in subsequent milieus may have modified the goal, object and medium of such techniques of power. Foucault in this methdological innovation draws from Nietzsche's work on genealogy of morals, history of nihilism as well as his project of re-evaluation of all values from the perspective of the will to power and life-affirming attitudes. In between Foucault and Nİetzsche, Heidegger's writings on ontology and temporality are imporant link whereby forms of power are historicized.

Idea grounding modern popular assemblies expressing national identity, interest and projects.

the appearance of unprecedented scales of magnitude whereby new quantities (extremely small, extremely large) become new qualities.

mixing of different elements which do not lose their qualities in a new synthesis (e.g., lemonade: lemon, sugar, water).

sacrificed bodies which in their sacrfice both excluded and included in the political community. Excluded because their bodies are given to sacrificial ritual, included because the ritual decomposition is integral to the functioning of the political community.

Elevation of contingent forms into definitive and desirable states of beings involving psychological processes of divorcing what's idealized from any undesirable quality.

inherent. exists without necessary involvement of an outside factor.

controversial certified papers allowing forgiveness in medieval Christian practice

A temporary stability conditioned upon processes which are not themselves stable. An emergent quality of matter, relations and societies.

A philosophic approach positing the uniform sameness of primary substance over irreducible difference of elements.

Max Weber's definition of state.

intellectual organically linked to a political class

mode of living involving periodic movement between pastures across vast geographies

A discursive strategy that works in tandem with normalization as it's inverse.

Well-being of the population as it pertains to governance.

nonnormative, heterodox disposition.

process whereby what's changing is reduced into a thing transcending time, perceptual fallacy whereby a phenomenon is taken only in its thing-hood devoid of abstract determination.

recreation of life in the general sense of sustenance of conditions of living

land-based mode of living whereby agriculture gives rise to accumulation of surplus, record-keeping and new forms of inheritance.

a reading method inspired by psychoanalysis whereby a text's breaking points are seen not as mere mistakes but revelatory of its presuppositions, desires and limits.

deterministic process whereby becoming of an entity is limited to an internal principle that sets it goal.

Walter Benjamin's conception of political interventions that completes historical time from a subjective experiential point of view

1) production of usefulness. 2) product of labor. 3) unit through which to understand historicity of society.