How to Sound Futuristic at Dinner Parties

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Speculative Concepts and Buzzwords

• Aesthetic Surplus

• Adventure Capitalism (see also: unceded territory of Marc Andreessen)

• Art made AI

• Black Cargo Futurism (see also: Pierre Huyghe’s Liminal)

• DarpaPunk

• Dérive Paths

• Dext (text + deck, deck text)

• Dream Bigness cf. S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

• Finding Never-Missing Things (e.g. a new job, a hole in the wall BBQ joint)

• Hotness=Generosity

• Idiot Geniuses / Genius Idiots

• Irrelevant > Inevitable

• Infrastructure Inversion

• Lore-ientation

• Originality is Plagiarism of the Obscure

• Paramedia Organization

• Pondering the Immortality of the Crab

• Regenerative Religion: because people keep having mystical experiences even without religious doxa

• Science [pause] fiction cf. “science fiction” (no pause)

• There is No Writing After AI

• Vibe CADing (because vibe coding is priced in)

• Web Serf (see also: idea serf e.g. at the speculation factory)

• wwIII = www.

*with thanks to many contributors especially

oprah's_junk_science

and

Sylvan Rackham

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