- definition: 1. It can be present as disturbance or defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
- definition: 1. It can be present as a disturbance or a defiance of any current stream, as a way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 3. Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- definition: 3. Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
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direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 8. A term used in the Marxist theory to describe the state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices and actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it.
- definition: 8. A term used in Marxist theory to describe the state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices and actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 9. 'Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain. They have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion, like a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.'
- definition: 9. Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain. They have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion, like a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.' [Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks]
direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 10. A factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks. It can be present as disturbance or defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 11. 'It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of' an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
- definition: 11. "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of…" [Slavoj Žižek] an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
- definition: 12. According to the Marxist theory, it refers to society's other relationships and ideas that are not directly related to production. That includes its culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state.
- definition: 12. According to Marxist theory, it refers to society's relationships that are not directly related to production. This includes culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state.
direction: Across
category: Ideology
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direction: Down
category: Ideology
- definition: 5. A form of government in which the society is based on the common ownership of the means of production, cooperative labour, and freely associated producers that administer production on the basis of a social or common plan.
- definition: 5. A form of government in which society is based on the common ownership of the means of production, cooperative labour, and freely associated producers that administer production on the basis of a social or common plan.
direction: Down
category: Ideology
- definition: 7. According to the Marxist theory, it refers to the mode of production that includes the forces and relations of production in a society.
- definition: 7. According to Marxist theory, it refers to the mode of production which includes the forces and relations of production in a society.
direction: Down
category: Ideology
- definition: 1. When a company is taking unfair or unethical advantage of a person (a user) or a situation for profit.
- definition: 1. When a company is taking unfair or unethical advantage of a person (e.g. a user) or a situation for profit.
direction: Across
category: Loot Box
- definition: 4. That causes a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something.
- definition: 4. Which causes a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something with.
direction: Across
category: Loot Box
- definition: 7. Something that is considered valuable because kept as part of a group of similar objects.
- definition: 7. Something that is considered valuable becauseit is kept as a part of a group of similar objects.
direction: Across
category: Loot Box
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direction: Across
category: Loot Box
- definition: 2. Available to only a few people because users have a limited time frame to obtain the loot box.
- definition: 2. Available to only a few people.
direction: Down
category: Loot Box
- definition: 3. The investment will probably not come back, which makes paying for the content of a loot box not just buying but…
- definition: 3. The investment may or may not come back, which makes paying not just buying but…
direction: Down
category: Loot Box
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direction: Down
category: Loot Box
- definition: 6. Something given or received in return or compensation for service, merit, hard work, etc.
- definition: 6. Something given or received in return or compensation for a service, merit, hard work, etc.
direction: Down
category: Loot Box
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direction: Down
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- definition: 1. After-hours labour, masked with enjoyable activities that feel like leisure, also related to self-work (people trying to improve their own capital).
- definition: 1. After-hours labour, masked with enjoyable activities that feel like leisure.
direction: Across
category: Productivity and Leisure
- definition: "5. Any action you take towards improvement of your own body or mind: incentives to quantify yourself couched in a “do what you love” rhetoric."
- definition: 5. Any action you take towards the improvement of your own body or mind. You are incentivized to quantify yourself through a “do what you love” rhetoric.
direction: Across
category: Productivity and Leisure
- definition: 7. Practical work, especially when it involves hard physical or mental effort.
- definition: 7. Can be practical work, especially when it involves hard physical or mental effort.
direction: Across
category: Productivity and Leisure
- definition: 9. A playable theory used to learn about reality without the consequences of reality.
- definition: 9. Can be a playable theory used to learn about reality without the consequences of reality.
direction: Across
category: Productivity and Leisure
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direction: Down
category: Productivity and Leisure
- definition: 4. Leisure practices included in humans' lives
- definition: 4. Leisure practices included in humans' lives.
direction: Down
category: Productivity and Leisure
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direction: Down
category: Productivity and Leisure
- definition: 8. A free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being "not serious", but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner.
- definition: 8. A free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being "not serious", but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit should be gained by doing it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner.
