ABSTRACT
Do you know your animus from your anomie? Puzzled by all that jargon at university? Now there's no need to be.
'Richard Osborne has done something very special here. He takes us on an exciting journey into the knowledge required to exist, survive, thrive, in the new millennium, in an interconnected global space that includes cyberpunk and cyborg, chaos theory and conspiracy theories, the postcolonial and the diaspora, hybridity and whiteness, the postmodern and the post-feminist, the digital and the Net, as much as older yet still influential terms like Enlightenment, empiricism, positivism, aesthetics, agency, nationhood, citizenship.
Osborne writes with wit, wisdom, and insight, always wary of any approach becoming an orthodoxy. He shows how particular concepts arise at particular times with particular authors and intellectual personalities. The entries proceed by illuminating examples, engaging anecdotes, subtle cross-referencing, wide historical contexts.'
John Docker, author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History
Written by the author of the international bestseller Philosophy for Beginners, Megawords provides definitions for the key terms every student in the humanities and social sciences needs to know.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |2 pages
Aberrant decoding
entry |2 pages
Abject/abjection
entry |2 pages
Activism
entry |3 pages
Aesthetics
entry |3 pages
Agency
entry |2 pages
Agenda setting
entry |2 pages
Alienation
entry |2 pages
Alterity
entry |2 pages
Androcentric
entry |2 pages
Anima/animus
entry |2 pages
Anomie
entry |2 pages
Aporia
entry |1 pages
Appropriation
entry |2 pages
Arbitrary
entry |3 pages
Archaeology
entry |1 pages
Archetype
entry |1 pages
Articulation
entry |2 pages
Audience
entry |2 pages
Aura
entry |2 pages
Authenticity/authentic
entry |3 pages
Author/authorship
entry |1 pages
Authority
entry |2 pages
Base/Superstructure
entry |2 pages
Behaviourism
entry |2 pages
Bias
entry |2 pages
Binary oppositions
entry |2 pages
Bisexuality
entry |3 pages
Black/Black politics
entry |3 pages
Body
entry |2 pages
Bourgeois
entry |3 pages
Brand
entry |2 pages
Bricoleur/Bricolage
entry |2 pages
Bureaucracy
entry |1 pages
Camp
entry |2 pages
Canon
entry |3 pages
Capitalism
entry |3 pages
Carnival
entry |2 pages
Castration complex
entry |3 pages
Celebrity/Celebrity culture
entry |2 pages
Chaos theory
entry |2 pages
Chora
entry |2 pages
Citizenship
entry |2 pages
City
entry |1 pages
Civil society
entry |2 pages
Civilisation
entry |4 pages
Class
entry |3 pages
Code
entry |1 pages
Collective unconscious
entry |2 pages
Colonial subject
entry |3 pages
Colonialism
entry |1 pages
Communication
entry |2 pages
Conflict theory
entry |2 pages
Connotation/Denotation
entry |2 pages
Conspiracy theory
entry |2 pages
Consumption
entry |1 pages
Copernican revolution
entry |2 pages
Counterculture
entry |1 pages
Critical theory
entry |2 pages
Cult
entry |3 pages
Cultural capital
entry |2 pages
Cultural populism
entry |2 pages
Cultural reproduction
entry |2 pages
Cultural studies
entry |2 pages
Culturalism
entry |5 pages
Culture
entry |2 pages
Cyberpunk
entry |2 pages
Cyberspace
entry |2 pages
Cyborg
entry |4 pages
Deconstruction
entry |1 pages
Desire
entry |1 pages
Determinism
entry |2 pages
Diaspora
entry |3 pages
Difference
entry |3 pages
Discourse
entry |2 pages
Division of labour
entry |2 pages
Dominant/Residual/Emergent
entry |1 pages
Doxa
entry |2 pages
Ecology
entry |2 pages
Ecriture feminine
entry |2 pages
Empiricism
entry |2 pages
Encoding/Decoding
entry |1 pages
End of philosophy
entry |3 pages
Enlightenment
entry |2 pages
Enonce/enonciation
entry |3 pages
Episteme
entry |1 pages
Epistemology
entry |2 pages
Essentialism
entry |1 pages
Ethics
entry |2 pages
Ethnicity
entry |2 pages
Ethnography
entry |2 pages
Existentialism
entry |2 pages
Fake TV
entry |2 pages
Feedback
entry |3 pages
Feminism
entry |2 pages
Flâneur
entry |2 pages
Flow
entry |1 pages
Fordism
entry |2 pages
Formalism
entry |2 pages
Frankfurt School
entry |2 pages
Functionalism/structural functionalism
entry |3 pages
Gaze
entry |1 pages
Geek
entry |3 pages
Gender
entry |2 pages
Genealogy
entry |1 pages
Genotext/Phenotext
entry |2 pages
Globalisation
entry |1 pages
Governmentality
entry |2 pages
Grand narrative
entry |3 pages
Habitus
entry |2 pages
Hegemony
entry |3 pages
Hermeneutics
entry |2 pages
Hot and cold media
entry |1 pages
Humanism
entry |1 pages
Hybridity
entry |1 pages
Hyperreality
entry |3 pages
Icon/iconic
entry |2 pages
Identity
entry |1 pages
Identity politics
entry |4 pages
Ideology
entry |2 pages
Image
entry |1 pages
Imperialism
entry |2 pages
Indigeneity
entry |1 pages
Information age/Information revolution
entry |3 pages
Intellectuals
entry |2 pages
Interdisciplinarity
entry |2 pages
Interpellation
entry |2 pages
Interpretive communities
entry |2 pages
Inter-textuality
entry |1 pages
Irony
entry |2 pages
Jouissance
entry |2 pages
Knowledge
entry |1 pages
Liberal/ism
entry |1 pages
Logocentrism
entry |2 pages
Marginality/marginalisation
entry |3 pages
Mass media
entry |2 pages
Materialism
entry |1 pages
Mediascape
entry |2 pages
Message
entry |2 pages
Metanarrative
entry |1 pages
Metaphor/metonymy
entry |2 pages
Methodology
entry |2 pages
Modernism
entry |2 pages
Moral panic
entry |1 pages
Multiculturalism
entry |2 pages
Myth
entry |2 pages
Nationhood
entry |2 pages
Nature
entry |2 pages
Neo-liberalism
entry |1 pages
Network society
entry |2 pages
New age
entry |1 pages
New historicism
entry |2 pages
New man
entry |2 pages
New Times
entry |1 pages
News values
entry |2 pages
Nomadic theory
entry |1 pages
Norm
entry |2 pages
Ontology
entry |2 pages
Orientalism
entry |2 pages
Other see Alterity Paradigm
entry |1 pages
Parapraxis
entry |1 pages
Pastiche
entry |2 pages
Patriarchy
entry |2 pages
Phallocentrism
entry |2 pages
Phenomenology
entry |2 pages
Pleasure
entry |1 pages
Pluralism
entry |2 pages
Political correctness
entry |3 pages
Political economy of the media
entry |1 pages
Polysemic
entry |3 pages
Popular culture
entry |2 pages
Positivism
entry |2 pages
Post-colonialism
entry |2 pages
Post-feminism
entry |4 pages
Postmodernism/postmodernity
entry |3 pages
Poststructuralism
entry |3 pages
Power
entry |3 pages
Psychoanalysis
entry |1 pages
Public/public sphere
entry |1 pages
Queer/Queer theory
entry |2 pages
Race
entry |2 pages
Radical/ism
entry |2 pages
Reader-response theory
entry |2 pages
Realism
entry |2 pages
Received ideas
entry |1 pages
Reductionism
entry |1 pages
Relativism
entry |1 pages
Reflexivity
entry |2 pages
Representation
entry |1 pages
Risk/risk society
entry |2 pages
Self
entry |2 pages
Semiotics/Semiology
entry |2 pages
Sign/signifier
entry |1 pages
Socialism
entry |2 pages
Society
entry |2 pages
Sociobiology
entry |3 pages
Space
entry |1 pages
State
entry |3 pages
Structuralism
entry |3 pages
Subaltern
entry |3 pages
Subcultures
entry |2 pages
Subject/subjectivity
entry |1 pages
Sustainability
entry |2 pages
Symbol
entry |2 pages
Technological determinism
entry |2 pages
Terrorism
entry |2 pages
Thatcherism
entry |2 pages
Travelling theory
entry |3 pages
Unconscious
entry |1 pages
Utilitarianism
entry |2 pages
Utopia/Utopian
entry |2 pages
Virtual reality
entry |2 pages
Whiteness
entry |1 pages
Writerly/Readerly
