Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

OPPOSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Oppositional Consciousness, a term coined by Chela Sandoval, is a response to the issues of race, gender, or class consciousness which were forced upon us by contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.1

Oppositional consciousness is organized around 5 principal categories, with the goal of effectively changing the dominant order of power; equal rights, revolutionary, supremacist, separatist, and differential ideology forms. All these different categories are brought into focus when the fifth category, differential consciousness, is used as a tool to retroactively clarify and ascribe a new meaning to the others. Differential consciousness represents the strategy of another oppositional ideology. It uses asymmetries and alienations as grounds for unification. "It permits functioning within yet beyond the demands of dominant ideology2."The political group Women of Color is founded on the vagueness of the term, exposing the difficulties in determining what stipulates a "woman of color". Oppositional Consciousness is Cyborg politics embodied.

Citations
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature."A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century". 1991, New York: Routledge, pp.122
Sandoval, Chela. A Theory of Oppositional Consciousness. 1991