The Word Index

Garbology – noun – Garbology is the study of trash and modern waste, focusing on its origins and serving as a major source of information on nature and human society.

Governmentality – noun – The art of government; or the organized practices, mentalities, rationalities, and techniques through which subjects are governed by a positive means rather than a disciplinarian—as first introduced by French philosopher Michel Foucault.

Sensorium – noun – The sensory apparatus as a whole through which someone or something experiences the environment around them—feeling, seeing, smelling, hearing, sensing, etc—and use of physical and remote faculties of the mind, phenomenal and psychological perception, cognition, intelligence, and intuition. The seat of sensation.

Bi·o·de·grad·a·ble – adjective – A once-living substance or object that becomes capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms — often to live again through growth or repurpose

in·ter·pass·iv·i·ty – noun – The delegation or outsourcing of enjoyment, consumption, action, or (inter)activity through passivity and inaction

haun·​tol·​o·​gy – noun – First introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Specters of Marx, Hauntology is a portmanteau of haunting and ontology. It usually refers to the return, celebration, or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost and in anticipation of a future that never occurred.