cryptomnesiac

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• cryptomnesiac commented on the word heterarchy

  "A heterarchy is a system of organization replete with overlap, multiplicity, mixed ascendancy, and/or divergent-but-coexistent patterns of relation. Definitions of the term vary among the disciplines: in social and information sciences, heterarchies are networks of elements in which each element shares the same "horizontal" position of power and authority, each playing a theoretically equal role. But in biological taxonomy, the requisite features of heterarchy involve, for example, a species sharing, with a species in a different family, a common ancestor which it does not share with members of its own family. This is theoretically possible under principles of "horizontal gene transfer."

  July 26, 2009

• cryptomnesiac commented on the word nobrow

  "The term nobrow is a postmodern neologism derived from highbrow and lowbrow. The term denotes intellectual discourse which is influenced both by high culture and low culture as initiated by Critical Theory in the United States and Cultural Studies in the United Kingdom, both of which were influenced by the French Annales School. "

  July 26, 2009

• cryptomnesiac commented on the word xenogenesis

  "xen·o·gen·e·sis=

  n.

  1. The supposed production of offspring markedly different from either parent."

  July 26, 2009

• cryptomnesiac commented on the word aufhebung

  "The German word Aufhebung literally means "out/up-lifting". The verb form Aufheben is often translated as "to sublate".

  In Hegel, the term Aufhebung has the apparently contradictory implications of both preserving and changing (the German verb aufheben means both "to cancel" and "to keep")."

  July 26, 2009