BAAC 2004: to paraphrase... words and phrases for the enlightened academic...

here's a little something I gathered on my travels...

A POSTMODERN VOCABULARY

aporia [de Man] / black nihilist hole of doom [TCG] :-}
author, the death of the [Barthes]
binary [Derrida]
bracket / bracketing [Husserl]
carnival / carnivalesque [Bakhtin]
-centric / -centrism
chora, the [Kristeva]
code
commodify / commodified / commodification
constative vs. performative [Austin]
constructivism / constructivist
containment vs. subversion [Foucault]
contest (verb) / contestatory
co-opt / co-opted (and its So. Dak. form?: ""co-op") :-}
critical theory / Critical Theory
decenter / decentered
deconstruct / deconstruction / deconstructive [Derrida]
defamiliarization [Shklovsky]
demystify / demystification // demythologization
desire / lack
dialogic / dialogism [Bakhtin]
difference / différence / différance [Derrida]
discourse [Foucault, et al.] (and its So. Dak. converse: "datcourse") :-}
displace / displacement [Freud/Lacan]
empower / empowerment
énuncé / énonciation
gap / blank [Iser] / lack / black nihilist hole of doom :-}
gender / sexuality [. . . lack thereof: TCG?] :-}
grands récits [Lyotard]
gynocriticism [Showalter]
habitus [Bourdieu]
hegemony (hegemonic), consensus [Gramsci] / counter-hegemonic
hermeneutics / hermeneutic circle
heterogeneity
history / historiography / New Historicism [cf. Foucault; cf. Reagan!]
homosocial [Sedgwick]
hybridity [Bhabha]
ideology / ideological
Imaginary (the ~) [Lacan]
imperialism / colonialism / postcolonialism / neo-colonialism
infrastructure vs. superstructure [Marx, (Althusser)]
interpellation [Althusser]
langue, parole [Saussure]
Law, the [Lacan]
liminal / liminality
logocentric / logocentrism [Derrida]
margin / marginal / marginalized
male gaze, the [Mulvey]
materialism [Marx, et al.] / historical ~ [Benjamin, et al.] / cultural ~ [R. Williams, et al.]
meta- [followed by any word, damn near!]
- e.g.: metatheatrical / metatheatricality
metaphor / metaphoric vs. metonymy / metonymic [Jacobson]
mirror stage [Lacan] / lipstick & gloss stage :-}
misprision [Bloom]
neo- [followed by any word, damn near!]
nightmare of history, the [Benjamin]
oppression / oppressor / oppressed
Orientalism [Said]
Other / Othered [de Beauvoir; Lacan; etc.]
palimpsest
paradigmatic vs. syntagmatic [Saussure]
patriarchy / patriarchal
performative / performativity
phallus / phallocentrism / phallocentric / phallogocentrism / phallogocentric [Lacan, etc.]
polyphony / polyphonic [Bakhtin, Said]
poco / pomo / porno :-}
post- [followed by any word, damn near!]
- e.g.: postcolonial / postcolonialism
postmodern / postmodernism / postmodernist / Post-Kellogg :-}
poststructuralism / poststructuralist
power [Foucault]
praxis
privilege (verb)
projection [Freud, Lacan]
["]race["] / racism / racist
Real [Lacan]
referent
reification [Lukács]
repression [Freud, Lacan]
secular criticism [Said]
Self, the [vs.] Other, the [Lacan, etc.]
semiotic (the ~) [Kristeva]
sex, sex, sex :-} / sexism / sexist
simulation / simulacra
sign / signifier vs. signified [Saussure] / transcendental ~ [Lacan, Derrida]
- signify / resignify / (re)signification / sigmundfreudification :-}
space / place / room / black nihilist hole of doom :-}
specularity
subaltern [Gramsci; Spivak]
substitution [Freud, Lacan]
subvert / subversion [Foucault, et al.] / resistance
Symbolic ( the ~) [Lacan]
synchronic vs. diachronic [Saussure]
text / textuality / intertextuality / meta-intertextuality!? :-}
trope
theatrical / theatricality [Butler, et al.]
uncanny [J.H. Miller]
unconscious [Freud, et al.] / political ~ [Jameson]
womanspeak [Irigaray]