Although virtual reality has been exploited as a concept throughout the 1980s as in technoscience and in literary works, the term “metaverse” was coined in the science fiction bookSnow Crash[9]. The story depicted the interaction of humans through avatars on the street, which was space owned...
In recent times, the term ‘Plantationocene’ has gained traction, which urges us to acknowledge the role of plantations in shaping the social and environmental history of our planet. The word was coined by Haraway (2015) as a “better, more descriptive term” that “makes one pay attention...
Consider the “financial crisis” of the late 2000s. The very term already attests to the presumed nature and causes of the crisis, which most observers indeed believe originated in the financial sector and was amplified by pervasive financialization. However, when theorists speak about a ...
The term Puritanism is also used in a broader sense to refer to the attitudes and values considered characteristic of the Puritans. It has been employed to denote a rigid moralism, or the condemnation of innocent pleasure, or religious narrowness adhered by the early New England Puritans. The ...
“Saul Bellow says that science has made a housecleaning of beliefs. But there was value in these things for me. I am today what I am because of those beliefs. I wonder what happens to children who don’t have those fixed stars, that known horizon — those myths?”[¹]...
Why was the term muckraker supposed to be an insult? Muckrake and John Bunyan Roosevelt called them "the men with the muck-rakes" and implied thatthey needed to learn "when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward." Investigative reporters weren't insulted; they adopted the term muckra...
Originated as an electronic cash system in 2008, bitcoin's growth continued into 2017, when the price of one peaked at $17,900. Rebecca Solnit published critiques discussing mansplaining, a term she coined this year. 2007: Additive manufacturing, colony collapse disorder USDAgov // Flickr 2007:...
In 1970, Aldave was hired as Oregon Law’s first woman faculty member. She was only the third woman to teach corporate law at an accredited U.S. law school, and she was the one of the first to teach securities regulation. Aldave educated current and future lawyers and leaders, supported...
“The term Anthropocene … suggests that the Earth has now left its natural geological epoch, the present interglacial state called the Holocene. Human activities have become so pervasive and profound that they rival the great forces of Nature and are pushing the Earth into planetary terra incognita...
WASHINGTON —“Political pilgrims” is a term coined to describe leftist intellectuals who credulously praised various Marxist dictators, while ignoring their abuses of power. But in the 1980s, it was an ultra-right-wing strongman, Roberto D’Aubuisson of El Salvador, who benefited most from id...