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abacusan instrument for performing calculations by sliding counters along rods or in grooves
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abyssalAbgrundtief🟱 in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the end of the World
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adamantunnachgiebig
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Agential RealismProposed by Karen Barad, the theory of agential realism is about seeing the world as a dynamic interplay of agencies that shape what we perceive as real
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agnostic"sceptic": a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.
Computing: denoting or relating to hardware or software that is compatible with many types of platform or operating system.
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Alienation(as opposite of „in entanglements“, ‚techniques of‘ turns humans and other beings into resources), Rift that (f.e.) separates pickers and buyers from consumers of matsutake in JapanâšȘ mostly in Donna Haraway: Staying with the trouble
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Anthropocene‚anthropo’= human, is not human fault/ mess but rather ‚modern capitalismâ€˜đŸ”” zeros and ones by Sadie Plant
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appendagesAnhÀnge
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Assemblagesreplacing term fixed and bounded term of ecological ‚community‘, Assemblages don’t just gather lifeways, they make them (p.23)
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attunementeinstimmung, abstimmung, bestimmtsein
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AutopoiesisThe term autopoiesis (from Greek aĂșro- (auto-) 'self', and roĂ­nois (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself k creating its own parts.1]
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Capitalismare Translations across sites of Difference (makes wealth accumulation possible)
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chimeraFabel-/ Mischwesen
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circuitous(of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.
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cnidariansNesseltiere
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Collaborationwork across difference
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concatenationa series of interconnected things
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conjugatedgive the different forms of (a verb), technical: coupled, connected, or related
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contaminated diversity(mostly complicated, ugly and humbling), what are east-asian people doing in oregons forests?
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Contaminationtransformation by encounter, inevitable, we are always in touch with other entities
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contiguousangrenzend, nah zusammenstoßend
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convivialitythe quality of being friendly and lively; friendliness (fröhlichkeit, gastlichkeit, geselligkeit)
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corollarylogische Folge
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crittersLebewesen
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delineationAbgrenzung
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enmeshmentdie Verstrickung, Verwickelung
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estuarywhere a river meets the ocean
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facialityGesichtszĂŒge
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filamentFaden, Faser
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finitudeEndlichkeit
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Ghostspickers who died untimely deaths, communities removed by laws and us armies, stumps of trees, cut down by loggers, memories of war, ghostly appearances of power (found everyday in picking and buying practices)
in: arts of living on a damaged planet "Ghosts" stand for the return to multiple (human and non human) pasts.
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heteroglossiathe presence of two or more expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work
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illegibleunleserlich/ undeutlich
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indeterminacy(Unbestimmtheit, determinacy = determinismus)
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InfidelunglÀubig/ without religious believe
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intangibleunable to be touched, not having a physical presence
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lichensFlechten (Lebewesen)
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littermatesan animal born in the same litter as another or others.
litter: - straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals
- rubbish, an untidy collection of things lying about
- a number of young animals born to an animal at one time.
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loggingAbholzung/ protokollierung/ Datengewinnung
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lozenge (weaving)ancient diamond shaped weaving pattern (resembling the shape of a vagina)
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making withIn Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway describes sympoiesis as. a simple word; it means "making-with." Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing ... Sympoiesis is a word proper to complex, dynamic, responsive, situated, historical systems. It is a word for worlding-with, in company.
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malleabilityFormbarkeit
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Mobile assets(asset: an item of value, owned)
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multidirectionalreturns from indeterminacy, regarding future & history
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myriadunzÀhlige
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necropolitics
government of people through violence and death
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Open ticketMushroom Buying practice (in Oregon)
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Patchiness(geographical, thematic, narrational 
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perenniallasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.
plant: living for several years.
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Pericapitalismsites for salvage (are simultaneously inside and outside capitalism)
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Polyphonyas musical explanation of Tsings usage of word ‚Assemblage‘
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Precarity(Life without the promise of stability/ romantization and illusion of it in art schools, common known state to artists and designers)
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refereeSchiedsrichter*in
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regurgitateform of feeding (penguins)
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Salvagetaking advantage of value produced without capitalist control (translates violence and pollution into profit)
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Salvage accumulationprocess with wich lead firms amass capital without controlling/ caring about production conditions
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Scale/ Scalabilityability of a project to expand without changing framing assumptions
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scopeAktionsradius/ Ausmaß
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serpentSchlange (Tier)
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sessileunfÀhigkei sich aktiv fortzubewegen
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smithereenssmall pieces
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Sortingbuyer assigns a grade to every mushroom, price depends on the grade
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Spacetimemattering (Karen Barad)dynamic, ongoing reconfiguring of a field of rationalities among "moments", "places" and "things" (in their inseperability)
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sublimateveredeln/ vergeistigen
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succumbingfail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.
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supply chainsparticularly kind of commodity chain (translate value to the benefit of dominant firms)
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tenaciouszÀh
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transversal(geometry) a line cutting a system of lines
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traversetravel across or through, move back and forth or sideways
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twine(sich) winden
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vertebratesWirbeltiere
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